How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the CompilerAct I: The Ancient Times (Pre-0.8.0) — When Solidity Was Wild and DangerousBack in the dark ages of Solidity (before version 0.8.0), numbers in smart contracts behaved like toddlers with no adult supervision. Add uint256 + uint256? Sure, no problem — even if it wraps around like a cursed clock and silently goes from 2^256 - 1 to 0. Let me paint a scene:“Behold! My function mints 1000 tokens. Simple math: balance += 1000. But oh no — balance ...