Compiler Result implementations reject valid variant-changing chains

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
70/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the OkImpl and ErrImpl Result implementations and type-check the four variant-changing examples in the issue. Update the concrete combinator typings so those examples compile while preserving runtime behavior, then verify the TypeScript errors are gone and existing checks still pass.

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Description

React version

Current main (2dc7da790d63).

Steps to reproduce

Type-check direct compiler utility chains such as:

Ok(2).andThen(() => Err("failed"));
Ok(2).and(Err("failed"));
Err("failed").or(Ok(4));
Err("failed").orElse(() => Ok(4));
Current behavior

The concrete OkImpl combinators fix the error type to never; ErrImpl.or fixes the success type to never; and ErrImpl.orElse accepts only another ErrImpl. These valid variant-changing chains fail TypeScript compilation with TS2322/TS2345 even though their runtime implementations naturally return the supplied result.

Expected behavior

The concrete implementations should preserve the Rust-style Result combinator behavior and infer the success/error types of the returned result without changing runtime semantics.

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