Clojurians Log v2

Angular 2 baffles me in how poorly it reads...

*ngFor='let x of xs'

Everything about Angular... it's like they need to invent a new syntax, a new arbitrary abstraction for every piece of functional utility.

Why do pipes have a completely independent syntax when they are essentially a function call? How does x | currency:'EUR':true help understand or make the code more viable than, say, x | currency('EUR', true) - or, more descriptively, x | currency({ type: 'EUR', symbolic: true })