Pipes was the only example of the "no/low code" idea that ever made me believe <i>that</i> possible future was remotely feasible. I saw a fair few co-workers produce some really interesting things with Pipes, and many wouldn't have known where to begin if you sat them down in front of a Python prompt with lxml. Seeing them chain filters, mangle date formats and input types was really cool.<p>The screenshots in the linked article make me hope that similar tooling can rise again.