Byte type

[rob-stewart]

I've never used a type with "byte" in its name except the one for Win32 APIs: BYTE. However, I have used char, uint8_t, etc., to mean a byte type. Having a byte_t would be better as it would be semantically correct and would be portable to any remaining platforms with non-8-bit bytes.

[tvaneerd]

Yep, it is a good idea. There real question is whether you find std::byte works as expected or not, and whether it suits your uses.