One thing I think C++ (or at least, most C++ users) gets right is suggesting that you should use 'auto' if you don't really care that much about bit width, and

One thing I think C++ (or at least, most C++ users) gets right is suggesting that you should use 'auto' if you don't really care that much about bit width, and the specified sizes otherwise. Thankfully C23 takes this approach, although it'll probably take forever until it's as adopted as widespread as C99 is now, and that's still not widespread enough.