# What is the Julia equivalent of Rust Option\<T\>?

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**Created:** [November 1, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-julia-equivalent-of-rust-option-t/122134 "2024-11-01T13:55:09Z")\
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This might help people who want to write good idiomatic code in both Julia and Rust.

> [@4 major problems of pattern matching in Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/4-major-problems-of-pattern-matching-in-julia/34392/3):
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> I think there are many situations where the pattern matching depends on runtime values and therefore has a lot of overhead when it happens in an inner loop. In this cases the multiple dispatch pattern can have significant overhead. Interestingly, after spending some time for a larger project in Rust and using its Enums+Pattern matching extensively, I had for the first time feeling that there was a feature in another programming language that Julia did not have and which I wished it had. [see ru…](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch18-03-pattern-syntax.html#destructuring-enums)

I agree with the feeling that using enums + pattern matching in Rust and parametric multiple dispatch in Julia seem good for now.

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