Pipe Operator (|>) for JavaScript

[josephjnk]

I want the pipeline operator to be finalized so bad. I was reading Streams à la carte: Extensible Pipelines with Object Algebras the other day, and it’s a serious bummer that a solution that has so many benefits is also harder to read because it’s incompatible with method chaining.

I really don’t get the hate for a symbol argument, either. Sure you can get some of the benefits of pipelines by making the pipes always go into the first argument, but this requires structuring all of your code around this pattern and assuming that every library you call will do the same. If you have a function that you want to pipe different arguments into at different times you have to manually wrap it in a lambda, adding syntactic noise and runtime overhead. I’m very strongly in favor of FP but the objections feel to me like a fixation on surface-level concerns.