[niklasgray]

We actually had a debate about this. I was initially in favor of "signed as default", but I acquiesced.

In retrospect, I think I was wrong and that "unsigned as default" works better.

I think the domain is important here. We're building a game engine, so there's actually plenty of bit fiddling. We also make use of the "overflow wraparound" of unsigneds in a lot of places.

I think in our case having 99 % unsigned is more feasible than having 99 % signed. There are actually not many things that we would need to use a signed integer for.

FYI, in our codebase right now we have

10038 uint32_t 123 int32_t 7843 uint64_t 58 int64_t

So at the moment we're actually 98.998 % unsigned.

I know it's not 99 %, but it's pretty close :)

[Aardappel]

Well, you have the facts to back it up, so indeed it can work for you. I'd say it requires quite some commitment to push it that far though, and I still would think it's not the right default for almost all teams. Impressive you made it work :)