Telling my kids this was suicide squad

its nice to use switch sometimes

I take one look at 300 lines of if-else-if blocks and pull a blame.

If the dev is still around I make a point to bring it up on standup and make them rewrite the whole thing in a switch block.

Nobody wants to maintain that pasta bullshit.

Switch and If/Else-If debates? Pardon my annoying remark, but for extendable solution, it's not even a workaround.

Shit quality meme.

Use a map. Easy to trace and runs in O(1) (thought not a great optimization for smaller set)

"The CIA wants you to think it's if-then-else..." - Terry Davis

I prefer Haskell's guards, Rust's & Scala's match... hell, even Kotlin's when expression and PHP 8.0's match expression.

For one simple reason: In most languages, neither switch/case nor if/else are actually expressions.

Branching logic shouldn't be statements, it should be an expression. The branches should be exhaustive and type-compatible.

Messing around with variable assignments inside/outside logic branches increases the chance of bugs.