I guess companies should stop using Java for big enterprise applications with tons of dependencies. Or this isn't a problem because programmers usually know the basics of the language they are using. And if they don't, then that is the problem, not the language.
btw, Python: '1' * 3 -> '111'
Main.java:17: error: incompatible types: String cannot be converted to int
int z = x + y;
In theory I agree with this but in practise I see this so rarely used it barely matters.
see here: https://repl.it/Cqeq/0
But that's not really the point, crdoconnor seems to think that languages should throw an error in cases like this, not just keep the type of the first argument.