As someone who actually loves JavaScript, I think this is a really bad idea.
Maybe it has a place in other languages. I really don't want to see it in JS. We don't need more ways to do things implicitly or bass-ackwards from how they're actually behaving underneath. Syntactic sugar rarely makes code more readable. This operator only makes code seem more concise and as if it's executing in a way that it actually isn't.
I can absolutely see junior developers running wild with this kind of thing.
JS should be kept simple. This operator is not simple. It now makes understanding expressions more complicated. JS has its quirks and rough edges, but its power is in its simplicity. Please do not import the mistakes of other languages into JavaScript. If someone wants this operator, they should be forced to use a Babel transform or to compile their own JS interpreter.
OR just compile your favorite language runtime with the pipe operator to WASM.
Maybe it has a place in other languages. I really don't want to see it in JS. We don't need more ways to do things implicitly or bass-ackwards from how they're actually behaving underneath. Syntactic sugar rarely makes code more readable. This operator only makes code seem more concise and as if it's executing in a way that it actually isn't.
I can absolutely see junior developers running wild with this kind of thing.
JS should be kept simple. This operator is not simple. It now makes understanding expressions more complicated. JS has its quirks and rough edges, but its power is in its simplicity. Please do not import the mistakes of other languages into JavaScript. If someone wants this operator, they should be forced to use a Babel transform or to compile their own JS interpreter.
OR just compile your favorite language runtime with the pipe operator to WASM.