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My friend Lukas has written about this before in more detail, and describes the general technique as "Safety Through Incompatibility". I use this approach in all of my golang codebases now and find it invaluable — it makes it really easy to do the right thing and really hard to accidentally pass the wrong kinds of IDs around.

https://lukasschwab.me/blog/gen/deriving-safe-id-types-in-go...

https://lukasschwab.me/blog/gen/safe-incompatibility.html



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