Oh neat! Most languages make it a little bit verbose to create these kinds of wrapper types for type safety (with zero overhead), so it's nice that Go has that.

Oh neat! Most languages make it a little bit verbose to create these kinds of wrapper types for type safety (with zero overhead), so it's nice that Go has that. I think the generic approach is a little bit better because of the flexibility, but this approach is still better than not having it at all.