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While I would much prefer to only write Typescript types, this would drive me insane:

> The only thing I do on top of that is to use annotations like "@minimum 0" (or, in the email example, "@format email") where the base types are not enough, but those simply go inside comments.

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Obviously it's not ideal, but IMO it's the better option. Much better than `z.number().integer().min(0)` or whatever zod equivalent there is and then have to deal with the inferred types which among other things tend to suck for IntelliSense etc. Those annotations map directly to JSON Schema attributes.

You can AOT typescript types from zod schemas if intellisense is your main complaint. I think it generally makes more sense to transform from more expressive => less expressive, and zod is more expressive than typescript (as evidenced by your need to add doc comment annotations to get similar behavior going the other way).

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