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1. peesem · 1789873145 · focus · HN ↗

   &quot;not an expert in zig&quot; but you can&#x27;t even look at the documentation to find the `@tagName` builtin to do exactly the problem posed?: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ziglang.org&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;0.16.0&#x2F;#tagName" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ziglang.org&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;0.16.0&#x2F;#tagName

   i can literally google &quot;zig enum to string&quot; and the first result is a reddit post where the given solution is `@tagName`. i&#x27;m ready to write this post off as a low-effort ad for C3

   1. jb1991 · 1789876138 · focus · HN ↗

      Agree, the post was extremely low effort.
   2. ManuLinares · 1789876750 · focus · HN ↗

      [dead]

   3. hiccuphippo · 1789878747 · focus · HN ↗

      If it&#x27;s for debugging purposes, you can use `{any}` as the format and it will print `.BLUE`

        std.debug.print("{any}\n", .{color});

   4. lerno · 1789895031 · focus · HN ↗

      C3 has an even simpler way than Zig: `Color.RED.description`.

      From what I can see the example started from C++, and then comparing how each language would look building it in userland instead.

2. WalterBright · 1789873232 · focus · HN ↗

   There&#x27;s a large black zig-zag blocking reading the text.
3. RyanVail · 1789876843 · focus · HN ↗

   Zig doesn&#x27;t have attributes, but you could just create a thin wrapper struct over an inner type and use setter functions that throw errors on invalid values. Personally I prefer this over attributes because it forces you to handle possible error states from the callers of the setters, instead of relying on you remembering to call `validate` on your types.

   1. lerno · 1789896518 · focus · HN ↗

      I believe all examples are derived from C++ examples on its new reflection capabilities.

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