[zverok]

(Author here)

Well, unfortunately a lot of new stuff becomes controversial on the pure ground of "no new language changes! it is good enough for me!"

TBH, I thought about a post series like this for a long time, but the last trigger was an announce of a special Rubocop addon to "disable useless syntax sugar"[1], and pattern matching was one of the "useless sugars" in the list. So I felt I need to cover it, too. And in the end of the day, I think it is an interesting excercise to analyse it in the same way as other, less significant and more controversial, features (the most intresting stuff would be in the second part, though).

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/16slc10/announcing_ru...

[stevebmark]

I wasn't aware of that new cop. Anecdotally, find Rubocop (and Flog and Reek) to be backwards tools. To me, they pattern match (ha) as the same core problems with the Ruby ecosystem. Ignore best practices that other language ecosystems have evolved, and embrace what other languages agree are bad practice.

[ezekg]

I'm glad I missed that r/ruby thread. I wouldn't have been very nice. I honestly can't tell if it's a troll or not. I love all of those features of Ruby, and use them daily.