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by code_runner 995 days ago
Unfortunately I’m not getting satire vibes from that blurb. I’m only more scared for JavaScript.

I love JavaScript but this pipe thing is horrific.
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toastercat 995 days ago
Tell that to Unix/FP lovers.
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code_runner 995 days ago
hahaha i mean this implementation. piping things in the shell is great
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toastercat 995 days ago
Ahh OK. Yeah, I always find trying to shoehorn language semantics via functions to be kinda awkward. The best attempt I've seen is this addition of async/await to Lua, which actually looks pretty usable [1].

[1] https://github.com/ms-jpq/lua-async-await

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