Summary

Refactored string and json modules to use u8 instead of byte and added a deprecation warning for byte. This is part of a transition to remove the byte alias and use u8 consistently.

Walkthrough

• Change the return type of string.at from byte to u8 and move the unsafe block inside the return statement (link, link)
• Move decode_byte from vlib/json/json_primitives.v to vlib/builtin/string.v and use u8 instead of byte (link)
• Add a warning to the checker for using byte instead of u8 (link)

Poem

Oh we're the coders of the V-lang
And we like to keep our code in sync
So we heave away and we refactor
From byte to u8 in a blink

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