PHP 8.5, due out November of this year, will bring with it another long-sought-after feature: the pipe operator (|>). It's a small feature with huge potential, yet it still took years to happen. What is a pipe operator? The pipe operator, spelled |>, is deceptively simple. It takes the value on its left side and passes it as the single argument to a function (or in PHP's case, callable) on its right side: $result = "Hello World" |> strlen(...) // Is equivalent to $result = strlen("Hello World"...