Erlang&#x27;s binary matching is beyond awesome, and OCaml has a pretty good implementation of it as well (Bitstring) [1].<p>Cool thing about Elixir is of course that awesome Erlang binary handling is available and very easy to use.<p>Lots of people have been lobbying for something like this in Rust, given its low-level orientation, but there&#x27;s been resistance to the idea from the core devs, who want it to be done using syntax extension.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rwmj.wordpress.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;02&#x2F;03&#x2F;on-the-awesomeness-of-ocaml-bitstring&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rwmj.wordpress.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;02&#x2F;03&#x2F;on-the-awesomeness-of-...</a>