[vikingcaffiene]

You are completely right. I work mostly in TypeScript and JavaScript for day to day and I miss pattern matching so much. Object de-structuring is nice and all but once you've seen the possibilities in a language where its a first class citizen... everything else just seems inadequate.

[Klathmon]

It's getting there for us in JS land, slowly but surely! There's still a lot of discussions that need to happen (read as "mostly bikeshedding" IMO), but once they settle on the actual syntax, i'd feel comfortable to start using it with compilers.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching