Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby | Hacker News
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A Hacker News discussion debates whether Ruby should add a pipe operator like Elixir’s.
One commenter says Ruby already handles pipe-like flows well with method chaining and blocks.
They argue a dedicated |> syntax would add only limited value compared with existing Ruby idioms.
The commenter also criticizes Ruby’s safe-navigation syntax as awkward.
