Pattern matching is a great feature first introduced in C# 7. You can use pattern matching on any data type, even on custom data types, to extract values from an expression.

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Two OpenJDK draft proposals would enhance the expressiveness of pattern matching in Java and boost data-oriented queries, potentially previewing in Java 17.