How about... u32?

gasp blasphemy! C programmers literally can't have nice things

Unsigned 32 bit IEEE 754 floating point, right?

Sure, that's totally readable and meaningful.

It’s longer than it needs to be when you’re typing it out so many times

What are we trying to optimize, the number of characters to type or clarity/readbility?

Both I guess? I don’t think the extra length helps with readability at all

if you like typing _, go ahead, but it's not 1 key press and shouldn't be treated as a keystroke like the letter a...

On my keyboard layout it's one keypress. And since code is read about 100 times as much it's written, I don't particularly care about reaching 250 WPM while writing code. The difficulty of writing code is thinking about it, not actually physically writing it.

Integer types are very common so it does still get a bit tedious. I guess it causes clutter when reading too