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Everything Should Be Typed: Scalar Types Are Not Enough

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 7/10

Summary

The article argues that scalar types are insufficient for true type safety and demonstrates how wrapping primitive values in domain-specific types (newtypes/branded types) prevents subtle bugs. It provides language-specific examples in Rust, Go, and TypeScript and explains benefits like self-documenting code and stronger compile-time guarantees.

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