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ffsm8 on Aug 24, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Playing Sudoku in TypeScript while the type checke...

> an escape hatch often needed

The only time you need that is in tests.

Otherwise you're better off using guards then blindly casting

tuwtuwtuwtuw on Aug 24, 2024 [–]

The code base I work on has more test code than production code.

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