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"not an expert in zig" but you can't even look at the documentation to find the `@tagName` builtin to do exactly the problem posed?: https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.16.0/#tagName
Agree, the post was extremely low effort.
If it's for debugging purposes, you can use `{any}` as the format and it will print `.BLUE`

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

There's a large black zig-zag blocking reading the text.
Zig doesn'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.
I believe all examples are derived from C++ examples on its new reflection capabilities.