PHP 8.5 Adds Pipe Operator: What it means

“The pipe operator has one of the highest ‘bangs for the buck’ of any feature in recent memory.”

PHP 8.5 gets the pipe operator. Take a value, pass it through a chain of functions, read left to right instead of inside out. Unix pipelines for your code. Simple syntax sugar with outsized impact on readability. Combined with first-class callables, PHP finally gets ergonomic functional patterns. Only took a couple decades.