🔧 PHP 8.5's Pipe Operator vs Laravel Collections: Where Piper Fits (And Where It Doesn't)

Originally published at hafiz.dev





PHP 8.5 shipped the pipe operator in November, and most Laravel developers shrugged. Why would we care about |> when collect()->filter()->map() has read top-to-bottom for a decade? Chained transformations are a solved problem in Laravel.

Then Spatie released Piper last month: a library that ports...