Emit branded TS types using Embind

[GulgDev]

Hello! Is it possible to use Embind to generate branded TypeScript types?

[sbc100]

Can you give an example of how / when these could be useful in embind?

[GulgDev]

They can be useful for exposing opaque structs to users of the built library.

[sbc100]

Can you give an example? I'm not quite sure what you mean by "opaque structs". It certainly seems like it should be doable if we have enough information.

[GulgDev]

I've already gone a different way, so I this discussion isn't relevant anymore, but, for example, Binaryen exposes raw pointers as number to JS, which is hard to implement in Embind, as it requires a lot of reinterpret casts.