[alkonaut]

These were the first lines of Go I ever wrote 15 minutes ago, as a response to the claim that Go had working enums. This is the kind of thing that makes me itch. https://go.dev/play/p/MMPMh7_U81-

I think "being simple" doesn't necessarily mean "must have subtle sharp edges and papercuts everywhere". Just like javascript I think it falls into a pit of being superficially "low complexity" or "simple", but all the subtle gotchas and unhelpful tooling (The fact a compiler can't help me realize I had added an entry to the enum, but forgotten to update a name list just means the whole feature is no better than just plain ints that we had in C since before I was born).