As an fpga engineer dealing with bitwidths that are non-byte multiples is very normal and when I end up writing software for various reasons, I often miss it. Usually when trying to slice and parse or construct messages.

Obviously there are ways around pretty much everything, but it’s nice to have first class language support for bit slices.

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NooneAtAll3 3 hours ago | parent [-]

except it isn't bit slice, it isn't indexing within a range - it's just integer type that only allows values up to 2^width, with same alignment rounding up as with the rest

	▲	hmry 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's a bit slice if you put it in a packed struct. I like them, they're nicer than C's bitfields: The order isn't implementation-defined, and the types remember their range rather than being converted to a power-of-two size upon read. (Maybe that's possible with C23 _BitInt(n), I haven't tried if those work in bitfields)