I'm a beginner with Gtk and i'm learning a lot throught gtk docs.

I cannot understand why there are so many alternative types like

• gfloat vc float
• gint vs int
• gchar vs char
• gboolean
• ...

https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/?q=gfloat

https://docs.gtk.org/glib/?q=gfloat

On docs there is nothing about why so many alternative types and which one I should use on my gtk apps.

I just found this definition of types https://libsoup.org/glib/glib-Basic-Types.html