100%, the c++ style casts are huge and unwieldy to type. Also, for casting between integer types, you can actually reverse the bracketing so it looks like a nic

100%, the c++ style casts are huge and unwieldy to type. Also, for casting between integer types, you can actually reverse the bracketing so it looks like a nice clean conversion function. Eg, these two expressions are the same: int32_t(x); (int32_t)x;