I understand, but what if I want to use the enums the way they are used in C, as a label for a number, probably as a way to encode some type or another. Sum types of literal numbers are not very practical here because the labels should be part of the API.

    export const MyEnumMapping = {
      active: 0,
      inactive: 1
    } as const

    export type MyEnum = typeof MyEnumMapping[keyof typeof MyEnumMapping];