I also miss pattern matching when using other languages. As an aside I just had a look at what stage Reia is up to. The github page says that Reia is now defun

I also miss pattern matching when using other languages. As an aside I just had a look at what stage Reia is up to. The github page says that Reia is now defunct. (https://github.com/tarcieri/reia https://github.com/tarcieri/reia) There is also another ruby-like language on the erlang VM - Elixir (https://github.com/josevalim/elixir https://github.com/josevalim/elixir)