[activitypea]

> you will probably never run into a compiler bug from enum emit;

That's true, but diagnosing other bugs is an absolute pain in the butt when your enum value at runtime is 0, 1, or 2. You get all of the readability of C with none of the performance :)

[ameliaquining]

I personally haven't found that to be much of a hindrance to debugging, but I suppose this is somewhat a matter of personal preference.