It might be because I only use C family languages for very low level highly optimized stuff, but I found it very weird that a blog post about types would force

It might be because I only use C family languages for very low level highly optimized stuff, but I found it very weird that a blog post about types would force all those useless casts from int to double. 9 / 5 in lieu of 9. / 5. or 1.8 will come back and bite you!