Rust’s pattern matching feels simple enough: match on enums, destructure tuples, handle Option and Result. I stuck with these basics for months because, well, they work. But there’s a whole world of pattern techniques I wasn’t using. Once I discovered what’s actually possible, I kicked myself for all the verbose code I’d written.Here’s what advanced pattern matching can look like (don’t worry if you don’t understand it now):It took me way too long to discover these techniques. This post is so yo...