I prefer if-expressions where possible. For example, this is valid Rust:

let x = if is_y {
    y
} else {
    z
};

(Can also be on a single line.)

This is the same syntax as the normal if-statement, except the compiler forces you to add an else-branch, if you want to 'return' a value from it.

Don't tell anyone, but the ternary operator is when the C designers realized that being purely procedural is cumbersome AF. 🙃
Unfortunately, they decided that expressions need to look like math, so now JS devs get to write random question marks and colons across many, deeply nested lines of code.