[arendjr]

At least Bash doesn’t have that hideous topic selector

I would be sympathetic if it were purely `”Hello, World!” |> console.log`. I still wouldn’t use a pipe in such a trivial case, but at least it’s not really worse. But with the topic selector that example has strictly more concepts you need to understand than the example without pipe. From an educational perspective that’s already not great, but what’s more worrisome is that proponents tend to suggest the pipeline should be used wherever you can, despite simultaneously “knowing” when not to use it and ignoring examples where you cannot use it due to multiple subjects being composed.

It’s not the pipeline in general that I’m against, but I’m very opposed to this “let’s-add-a-third-syntax-to-compose-arbitrary-expressions-Hack” proposal.