That's not equivalent. Notably if you have a `&[u8]` you can't transmute it to `&[E]`. It's also noisy when you have the enum as part of a larger struct, and ca

That's not equivalent. Notably if you have a `&[u8]` you can't transmute it to `&[E]`. It's also noisy when you have the enum as part of a larger struct, and can make encoding/decoding very verbose.