Comment by ragnese

Thank you for the answer! I won't waste your time because I'm sure the answer is somewhere on the web, but off the top of my head, I don't understand why TS "has" to emit different JS. I would've assumed that the entire point of a const enum is to inline the raw value in the emitted JS, and thus, the programmer should be careful to remember/know that the code is dealing with raw ints/strings.