I'm happily using this pattern in TS to wrap DB ids to avoid mistakenly passing e.g. user id to a function accepting a thing id or vice versa. Works very well a

I'm happily using this pattern in TS to wrap DB ids to avoid mistakenly passing e.g. user id to a function accepting a thing id or vice versa. Works very well and prevented a few close calls. I'd call it a type system feature, especially if you pack the id in a nominal type.