It feels weird that the CSS WG does a popular vote for a different syntax implementing the same feature, something that an expert opinion should weigh way more then popular demand. But at the same time TC39 picked an archaic version of the pipeline operator (|> https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator) despite a clear demand from the community to pick a functional one.
Perhaps the two committees should learn a bit from each other.
The version they’re picking is the fast pipe from OCaml, and the only pipe in ReScript. It works much better for type inference, and avoids the extra allocations the FP pipe usually incurs
Perhaps the two committees should learn a bit from each other.