there is a proposal to add it to javascript too: 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Pipeline_operator

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 03:28:12AM +0800, Tim Lee wrote:
> > Using *fluent*, the same racket code can be written according to the UNIX 
> > philosophy:
> > 
> >     ("data.txt" > file->lines >> filter (line : line > string-contains? 
> > "active") >> map (line : line > string-split > list-ref 4) > 
> > remove-duplicates > sort)
> 
> This reminds me of Clojure's threading macros (->, ->>, etc.), and
> OCaml's "reverse-application operator": "|>", where x |> f |> g is
> equivalent to (g (f x)). The tacking-on of such convenience
> functions/syntax across so many functional languages is probably a sign that
> many of these languages have it backwards (from a user-friendliness point of
> view).

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