Discussion on: I've never become overly convinced that switch statements are that much cleaner than `if else if else if else if else`

I like switch for when I return because you skip out on so much boilerplate over and over.

switch(something){
case "this":
    return 1;
case "that":
    return 2;
default:
    return 0;
}

Just feels much easier to type than

if(something === "this"){
    return 1;
} 
if (something === "that"){
    return 2;
}

return 0;

You have to keep typing something === over and over and I dislike that.

The speed etc is not important to me.