It's arguably true in a certainly commonly-used subset of C++ as well: this type of typecast doesn't work in C++ unless you use dynamic_cast or another RTTI sys

It's arguably true in a certainly commonly-used subset of C++ as well: this type of typecast doesn't work in C++ unless you use dynamic_cast or another RTTI system (like COM). dynamic_cast only works on classes with a vtable. It's true that RTTI isn't used very much in C++, but I can't think of any non-trivial C++ project that doesn't include some traditional unsafe typecasts. And I have worked on a lot of C++ projects. And then there's the implicit type coercions, and the implicit constructors... ah, the good old days.