[OT] Some neat ideas from the Kotlin language

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On Friday, 19 February 2016 at 12:28:14 UTC, Nemanja Boric wrote:
> What Rust is doing:
>
> ```
> let foo: Option<i32> = bar();
>
> let new_stuff = match foo {
>    Some(x) => x,
>    None => 0
> }
> ```
>
> (or similar, I don't have compiler handy).

I think most would write that as:

     let new_stuf = bar().unwrap_or(0);

When you use the methods on `Option` you rarely need to match.