[yetkin]

but why all of a sudden languages started to add this? Maybe the function itself needs to be simplified, maybe there is a design issue. i am failing to see how "if else" can be simplified via a synth sugar.

[nicoburns]

It's a switch statement that's an expression. That's a nice ergonomic improvement when you want to assign the result to a variable. Especially as it allows you to use a non-mutable variable whereas otherwise you'd have to make it mutable.

[chmod775]

I wouldn't compare it to a switch statement, because a switch statement - even though it looks similar - has fundamentally different control flow.

[beberlei]

one benefit of match over switch is that it uses === and not == internally. So it does not suffer from type coercion problems.