[FEATURE] - Add Bytes Type

[briandowns]

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In regards to #567 , a new Bytes type will be added. More details to follow.

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[briandowns]

As mentioned in the roadmap discussion here , we want the bytes type to be part of the language itself. Some thoughts around that.

E.g.

const b1 = b"some data";

I was also thinking, inspired by Go, to make a distinction between double quotes and single quotes. The former being used exclusively for strings and the latter for for single bytes.

E.g.

const s1 = "some string";
const b1 = 't';
const b2 = '\n';