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> Trivia: F# is the language that made the pipeline operator (|>) popular. I’m not a dabbler in exotic languages, so this definition of “popular” was puzzling.
by shermantanktop 2y ago
> Trivia: F# is the language that made the pipeline operator (|>) popular.
I’m not a dabbler in exotic languages, so this definition of “popular” was puzzling. I’ve literally never seen that operator before. Maybe I need to get out more.
- zdragnar 2y agoIt exists in several similar languages such as elixir, and was even a proposal for ecmascript, but never really got traction.
- sundarurfriend 2y agoI'm familiar with it via Julia, and I believe recent versions of R also have it.
- WorldMaker 2y agoIt made it to Stage 2, which is some traction: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator It has been "stuck" at Stage 2 for a while, though.
- shermantanktop 2y agoThanks for that link! Now I want pipe operators...
- sdsd 2y agoI've used it in Racket, which is not exactly "popular" but common in universities as a teaching language. I actually built a fairly popular Tor hidden search engine in Racket nearly a decade ago, but I quickly shut it down when I ran some stats on the most common queries.