[thesneakin]

Been thinking the same thing for just as long. "int" was supposed to be a full native word. Nowadays it's best to never use "int".

[cpeterso]

Google’s C++ coding style recommends using bare “int” by default or “int64_t” if the number might be “big”. It also recommends using signed integers over unsigned.

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Integer_Ty...