[laurencerowe]

You can workaround the lack of exhaustive matching with the following pattern:

    type Variant = { kind: "value", value: string  } | { kind: "error", error: string } | { kind: "unexpected" };

    class Unreachable extends Error {
        constructor(unexpected: never) {
            super(`${unexpected}`);
        }
    }

    function useVariant(variant: Variant) {
        switch (variant.kind) {
            case "value":
                return variant.value;
            case "error":
                return variant.error;
            default:
                throw new Unreachable(variant);
        }
    }

The `new Unreachable(variant)` will fail the type check only when you have not exhaustively matched all variants.