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Thaxll 47 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Go Enums Still Suck

In most languages enum suck, it's not specific to Go, lot of pitfall and ABI issues, even my modern languages like C# have those.

randomdata 47 days ago [–]

Yes, enums fundamentally suck. There is nothing you can do in a language to make them not suck other than to get rid of them...

...which, indeed, is quite viable as enums are just a hack to work around a limited type system anyway.

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