Not every idea deserves to have an esoteric language attached to it to work.
EDIT: I just copied and pasted a code example into a text window and the raw typed text is exposed. Maybe something like a suggestion to do that could be included for anyone flummoxed by the symbols?
I had to copy-paste the "weird-looking play-symbol" (|>) into a text editor to see if it really was what I thought it was [1], after noticing that selecting it with the mouse split it in half. That is highly distracting from the message, at least to me.
[1]: It was.
Seriously, fonts that coders tend to use have included ligatures for quite a few years. For me, it’s less visual noise and a cleaner look.
I use Vim/Neovim and WezTerm but there are many combinations of editors and terminal emulators that support ligatures.
And many programmers fonts: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts