> You could use it to make typescript prevent forking and code-duplication within a codebase of engineers you dont trust, I guess. But it doesn't seem like a gr

> You could use it to make typescript prevent forking and code-duplication within a codebase of engineers you dont trust, I guess. But it doesn't seem like a great use either. Right, for that you are better off using unique Symbols. That's definitely the modern JS way to nominally type something in a private way that stays inside your API boundary and is very much more useful because it is also enforced at runtime, too, and not just an accident of old type mechanics.