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Is it possible to have a typealias that's serializable?

I thought this would work, but no go
```@Serializable
typealias BOOP = String```

the docs seem to say that String is a primitive that's supported but I can't seem to even get String.serializer() either

```typealias BOOP = @Serializable String```

intesting. i could've sworn i tried that and it did't compile. but it did this time.

i thought it would send it wrapped in json, but it just sends a raw string literal over the wire. So looks like I'll just do

```@Serializable
data class Thing(val boop: BOOP)

typealias BOOP = String```
thanks <@UJQB4DJF7>

if it's literally `String` there's no need anyway

it's more useful when you have `typealias SerializableFoo = @Serializable(with = ExternalFooSerializer::class) Foo` or other more meaningful annotations

Though do note that there are some limitations, e.g.
<https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-58338/Annotations-in-typealiasare-lost-through-inferred-generics|https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-58338/Annotations-in-typealiasare-lost-through-inferred-generics>