I regard every cast as a bug in my own code and try to refactor it so there aren't any. I can't get rid of all of them, but they're always worth a second look.

I don't normally grep for them, but others have told me they did.

P.S. one thing about D is you can do things like this:

    ubyte b = i;            // error, losing bits
    ubyte b = cast(ubyte)i; // ugly cast
    ubyte b = i & 0xFF;     // no cast, no error!

It's just one of the nice little details that making programming in D a pleasure.

Try to think about why you might want to do that. It makes a lot of sense, but if you're not doing it, that might be enlightening...

When doing appsec review in C or C++, yes!

Honestly I know I don’t do that either. I mean if there was some special case where I remembered “oh yeah I had to cast that variable in this special case”. In general I avoid casting as much as I can in C/C++, but especially in C.