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		shpongled on March 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a new functional programming language Rust, but practically no other mainstream or OO/imperative style language

adamwk on March 6, 2023 [–]

Swift, kotlin, Java

haspok on March 6, 2023 | | [–]

There is no proper pattern matching / destructuring in either Java or Kotlin.

There is a discussion about it in Kotlin, see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-186/Support-pattern-...

docandrew on March 6, 2023 | | | [–]

Ada might be getting pattern matching soon too:

https://github.com/AdaCore/ada-spark-rfcs/blob/master/protot...

pxc on March 6, 2023 | | [–]

also Scala, which I'd take over Java any day

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