[vslira]

This is great. I'm currently trying to rewrite a heavily object-oriented library into a more functional one (the rewrite is necessary because of licensing issues, and functional because the original code is a clusterf*ck of mutation) and despite the whole company working on top of Python, I was seriously considering implementing it in SML[1] specifically due to pattern matching making the underlying algorithm of the main data structure incredibly easier to reason about and implement.

[1] Yes I know coconut-lang is a thing, but I didn't want to introduce something that looks a lot like Python but isn't in our codebase