> Like, using u8 or i32 instead of the standard uint8_t or int32_t might save a few keystrokes, but it could confuse anyone else looking at the code.

This seems a theoretical possibility _at best_, and a fairly strawman-y one at that. I doubt any competent C programmer would get "confused". Irritated at a different style, maybe.

Too, everything is hard to read before you learn to read it. -- Rich Hickey