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by diarrhea 872 days ago
That's great to hear. We did the same, but in C#, using its records. The codebase didn't exactly suffer from errors from ID misuse (all of which were the same type beforehand), but it's great for future-proofing as well.

Added benefit, as always when leaning into the type system more, is a reduction in the number of unit tests required. The need to test that `update_user(group_id)` fails (because a non-user ID was passed) simply disappears.