When browsing code posted or advertised on various forums, I noticed a dramatic increase in the use of uint8_t and such. In places where they really were not us

When browsing code posted or advertised on various forums, I noticed a dramatic increase in the use of uint8_t and such. In places where they really were not useful, and a basic standard type would suffice, and be more portable, and be as fast or faster. I have seen intN_t used as booleans! I have seen uintN_t types used and signed values put in them! (which meant the author didn't understand yet the basis of types but was somehow taught it was a good practice to use exact-width types). I also suspect the influence of languages with fanboys, as Rust. I had a 'fight' with these, they really didn't grasp the concept of having a type defined as the natural type of the platform and as having at least (and possibly at most) N bits. I gave up. As long as they have fun with their thing and do not try to spread "the good word" and influence other languages, that would be fine. Let's hope we won't see the influence of languages whose designers had a gripe against unsigned integers...