I’m very much a proponent of statically typed languages and primarily work in C#.

We tried “typed” strings like this on a project once for business identifiers.

Overall it worked in making sure that the wrong type of ID couldn’t accidentally be used in the wrong place, but the general consensus after moving on from the project was that the “juice was not worth the squeeze”.

I don’t know if other languages make it easier, but in c# it felt like the language was mostly working against you. For example data needs to come in and out over an API and is in string form when it does, meaning you have to do manual conversions all the time.

In c# I use named arguments most of the time, making it much harder to accidentally pass the wrong string into a method or constructor’s parameter.