Comment by kreco

That's interesting because maybe a byte will not be 8-bit in 45 years from now on.

I'm mostly discussing from the sake of it because I don't really mind as a C/C++ user. We could just use "octet" and call it a day, but now there is an ambiguity with the past definition and potential in the future definition (in which case I hope the term "byte" will just disappear).