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Contrasting any, unknown, and never in TypeScript

TypeScriptType System Limitsany vs unknown vs neveradvanced

What this snippet does

'any' opts out of checking, 'unknown' is a safe top type requiring narrowing, and 'never' is the bottom type that cannot hold a value.

Expected output

1 1 undefined

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