User IDs probably shouldn't be passed around as ints

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    The canonical spec for ulid

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    A Rosyln-powered generator for strongly-typed IDs

    • > Is it just user-ids we should discuss or is it all kind of ids represented as an int?

    Strongly typed ID’s are a thing advocated for in general [0], yes.

    And they aren’t even inconvenient in some languages. Modern C# for example makes it very easy to use them [1].

    [0]: https://andrewlock.net/using-strongly-typed-entity-ids-to-av...

    [1]: https://github.com/andrewlock/StronglyTypedId

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