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> Automatic built-in overflow checking is a choice in the language
design
> space that has distinct consequences. It's easy to execute in the
> compiler so the entry barrier is low. To claim that language designers
> who didn't go that way simply missed the point makes for a weak story.
> Andrei

Well, I was a bit harsh. Apologies.
Force of things is not that "they are easy" but "they are standard".