Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript

Is this: Object.keys(envars) .map(envar => `${envar}=${envars[envar]}`) .join(' ') |> `$ ${%}` |> chalk.dim(%, 'node', args.join(' ')) |> console.log(%); Really better than: console.log(chalk.dim( `$ ${Object.keys(envars) .map(envar => `${envar}=${envars[envar]}`) .join(' ') }`, 'node', args.join(' ') )); That's the real-world example they have (I reformatted the second one slightly, because it looks better to me). Neither seems very good to me, and the |> version doesn't really seem "less bad". Can also write it…

I guess I'll just throw myself to the wolves here by saying that I'm generally in favor of a pipe operator, I believe avoiding unnecessary temporary variables is a very valuable thing for the reasonability of code, and that while I'd prefer F# style pipes plus a clean partial application syntax/approach, I can certainly live with the Hack style pipes and agree that F# would be very unidiomatic in the absence of better partial application. Furthermore, I'm continually astounded by…

The advancement of this proposal has been stalled for many years because there were two competing proposals. The winning proposal was with the Hack style pipelines, which won over the F# style pipelines. This decision is highly controversial as you can see if you look at the issue threads. One issue thread[1] got over 250 comments before it was closed as too heated. In my opinion the wrong proposal was advanced. And I find it very curios why this was…

It looks like they finally choose between smart and dumb. It took around 6(?) years, but hopefully this marks another step to actually getting it in JS engines.