[alwaysbeconsing]

This annoying restriction is lifted in Nim 2; see the linked announcement.

[xigoi]

Where in the announcement does it say that?

[ElegantBeef]

They likely read "overloadable enums" and went "Oh Rust calls their tagged unions enums" so assumed all languages did.

[alwaysbeconsing]

Oh, no, I actually misunderstood cobby's complaint: the field names, yes, those still have to be unique. Which is also a bit annoying, though I've seen discussions about changing it.