Some things in programming make me feel at peace with the world. One such thing is the pipeline (or pipe) operator. It’s so simple, but so elegant. Today, I will act as your local functional programming hype-man, and go over how it works and why it’s great (for the uninitiated). The pipe operator is a staple in languages like Elixir and OCaml, but curiously, the first place we can really take a lo

