It's definitely a good idea. Pipes are both very powerful and very simple to use and debug, yet they are not very common in general purpose programming language

It's definitely a good idea. Pipes are both very powerful and very simple to use and debug, yet they are not very common in general purpose programming languages (examples?). I'm not surprised that someone is trying to build a language around them. I'll follow that, but for now it's a bit too early to judge.