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Are there ways to push the checks towards compile-time? I sometimes have an `Any` that's trying to get serialized, and I only realize that once I run the code.

example? there is no `Any.serializer()` so normally it's quite difficult to get `Any` into a `@Serializable` structure, failing at compile time…

I lowkey think having the type-inferred overload was a mistake; I too was burned & especiially when serializing sealed class concrete types `json.encodeToString(Child(..))` like more than twice

`serialize(if (X) { Y } else { Z }` if `Y)` and `Z` disagree on type, it's reasonably easy to get there

never had in any codebase I work on :blob-shrug:
even if that worked, that wouldn't lead to output that can be deserialized

It fails at runtime, I want it to fail at compile time.

well it's part of public API so you're SOL. Just a lint rule maybe