> In the issue ticket I linked, Eduardo Bart mentioned that int the Nim > codebase that string is also used as a buffer (instead of a seq[uint8]), e.g. > readFile() and writeFile(). Where even the data those procs could be > returning binary and not text.
That is correct. But in the longer term we'll be forced to use `seq[byte]` more and more. The reason? Often the serialization format (JSON) distinguishes between Unicode text and bytes.
