> for the most part That's the important bit. If they always worked as expected, I'd agree. But they don't. I could give plenty of examples but I'm sure you kn

> for the most part That's the important bit. If they always worked as expected, I'd agree. But they don't. I could give plenty of examples but I'm sure you know about them. > A true begineer is unlikely to be familiar with bash or these other languages I'm with you on Bash, but not necessarily about "these other languages". Lots of people are being introduced to functional languages first, and if you don't think so you're probably just old. I also don't assume a beginner will just be given code without any guidance. What do you think about dot notation? If they can/can't understand `foo().bar().baz()`, then surely they can/can't understand `foo() |> bar() |> baz()` all the same? Actually the "lack of familiarity" argument is the best argument for introducing it in JavaScript: It's the language beginners are learning nowadays, so if it has feature x as a prominent feature, in a few years everyone will know about it.