To be fair, enums represent a different and incompatible concept in every language I know.
It's possible to support everybody's needs in a single language, but I'm not aware of any language that has done it yet.
It's possible to support everybody's needs in a single language, but I'm not aware of any language that has done it yet.
Enums has always felt very natural in every modern languages i've tried (swift and rust, for example), even with associated values. The underlying "sum type" concept also is very intuitive, and seems very complementary to structs for example.
Can you expand a bit on what you mean ?
https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/enum
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html
https://api.rubyonrails.org/v5.2.4.5/classes/ActiveRecord/En... https://sorbet.org/docs/tenum
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/enum.htm...
https://dart.dev/language/enums
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-enum.html
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/enum.html
https://zig.guide/language-basics/enums
https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0013
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/planet-mitchell-0.1.0/do...
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/openxl-fortran-aix/17.1.1?topic=...
Kotlins syntax is in general a bit underrated imo and I disagree that Java is up to par.