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Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?
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I find Universal Function Call Syntax a much nicer solution than pipes, although I don't think it's quite as broad.
For example, taking the example from elixir's home page:
would be
in something like D
I personally find that syntax a bit confusing because it looks like it's traversing members of structs/records/objects. It also looks like the composition operator in Haskell but is read in opposite order.
I'm sure it's perfectly fine when actually working in D but it's not as obvious as pipes imo.
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