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Designing for 'Fail-Fast' with Type Guards
Updated May 4, 2026
Short answer
Type-narrowing logic for complex architectures.
Deep explanation
Using TypeGuard and typing.Never to ensure that the static analyzer can prove exhaustive handling of all possible data types in a union or enum.
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