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What... Have you seen the piping syntax in tidyverse? It's incomprehensible unless you put in a lot of effort to understand all that's going on.

This is such an odd take. I program almost exclusively Python these days and I miss the elegance of piped functions daily.

What is incomprehensible about it?

Grandparent commenter mentioned the piping syntax, specifically.

I dunno, I got pretty sick of writing head(filter(df, value>10)) and it's (a little) easier to indent as df %>% filter(value>10) %>% head().

It's problematic because people abuse it for everything (300 line pipes are common, sadly) but it's a really useful tool in moderation.