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Re:Removing Garbage Collection from the Rust Language (2013) by richbell on Monday September 11, 2023 @08:00AM (#37465958)
It's unfortunate that Kotlin lacks pattern matching, especially now that Java has it. I can only hope that the release of the new compiler will spur further language features.
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Re:Removing Garbage Collection from the Rust Language (2013) by simonkagedal on Monday September 11, 2023 @03:05PM (#37472127)
What kinds of pattern matching that Java now has is Kotlin missing?
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Re:Removing Garbage Collection from the Rust Language (2013) by richbell on Monday September 11, 2023 @03:52PM (#37472711)
At the moment Kotlin only has smart casts and exhaustive type checking (e.g., making sure you didn't forget a switch case). It doesn't let you destructure records, add guards to cases, etc.

https://www.infoq.com/articles/pattern-matching-for-switch/

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