I think it makes a lot of sense in the context of a live interpreter. Wrapping and object in help() or dir() is an annoying set of movements vs. just pressing 5 keys with no modifiers (Home, w,a,t,/). It makes its feel much more like a magic command without actually needing it to be magic. The dot modifiers are also convenient compared to passing kwargs imo.

Interesting choice indeed. It looks like it supports the traditional approach as well

> wat object can quickly inspect things by using the division operator (to avoid typing parentheses). A short, no-parentheses syntax wat / object is equivalent to wat(object).

The README suggests for easier typing in interactive use.

It's the parentheses that drove me crazy. As people already noted, it's for faster typing, at the cost of the division magic as you noted. If it's more familiar to you, it works with `wat(object)` syntax as well.

I love it