Nay! Emoji is slang that excludes a huge number of people, not just due to preference but also because the meaning keeps changing and can be confusing if not exhausting to keep up with. It skews young and/or Western and there's far more kinds of programmers than that.
Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?
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#32Small note: it’s spelled ‘Yea’ and not ‘Yay’.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cmd+Ctrl+Space brings up the emoji palette on MacOS. This palette is easy to use from the keyboard and works in the terminal too. Some MacBooks famously also have a TouchBar that makes emoji easy to type. I can't remember the last time I had issues rendering emoji, and I have no idea why they'd be difficult to search for or how they would pose any accessibility issues.
What should the other 87% of people do in the interest of fairness? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
It's also easy on Windows
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#34That's a no from me. I am not a huge fan of emoji. Especially not in the cli or editor. Emoji are hard to type on non-mobile platforms, and are difficult to search for in logs or files. Often they don't render properly. They're near impossible to deal with from the command-line. Not to mention the accessibility issues. I see no reason why these cannot be accomplished with tags/flairs such as [critical], [bug], etc. T…
> Emoji are hard to type on non-mobile platforms On Windows they are easy: + . Finding the right emoji is easier than on my Android phone as Windows lets me type the emoji name. Why emoji search is missing on Android... who knows.
Depends on the keyboard you use, with gboard you can search for emojis.
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#35I’ve been consistently using it on my last 3 projects and I really like it.
It brings a simple visual clue to the content of a commit, it’s displayed correctly on all my git clients, and it’s just fun.
Also, you don’t want to have more than one emoji so I agree it forces to have more atomic commits.
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#36That's a no from me. I am not a huge fan of emoji. Especially not in the cli or editor. Emoji are hard to type on non-mobile platforms, and are difficult to search for in logs or files. Often they don't render properly. They're near impossible to deal with from the command-line. Not to mention the accessibility issues. I see no reason why these cannot be accomplished with tags/flairs such as [critical], [bug], etc. T…
> Please use good ol' plaintext
I want to emphasize on that. Why do programmers like plaintext, often to the point of wanting ASCII instead of unicode despite its international awesomeness?
That's because we are called when things break down in the machinery. Monospace ASCII may look boring, but it has a precious characteristic: there is (almost) 1-to-1 mapping between the inner representation of a character and its screen representation.
Most programming fonts make sure 1 l | i I all look different.
We make sure we can spot the difference between `'"
We know of the few remaining pitfalls, like space and tabs, \n and \r, the various escape characters, the infamous \0.
Even on that limited representation, there are many things to be careful of. And thing is: this representation is just the start of our work! all the rest hinge on that!
Unicode is full of invisible character, potential diacritics, similar-looking glyps, control character that can break the display in a lot of annoying ways.
We made a whole ASCII-based ecosystem because this mapping is precious in many debugging cases. Whatever one does in the (and I say that non-sarcastically) really wonderful and awesome world of unicode, remember that we are going to often only see it as a bunch of 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0xA9 (Emoji are great to make some apps prettier, some chat concise, to add non verbal communication to online chat. They are not a tool to help developers' life.
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#37I think this is a highly regional preference even without meaning to be. Emoji are more popular in Asia than in the Americas as part of normal conversation.
Probably because the entire generation of internet users right now grew up on smartphones before laptops.
Secondly, we already struggle using international keyboards to find things like rupee symbol (₹) vs the $, etc. Emojis are just next door to the effort.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, zoomer? Not familiar with that term
Haven't heard this either, but I assume it refers to "generation Z"
Yes, it plays on "generation Z" and the "boomer generation". I believe it is commonly used to refer to people born after the turn of the millennium.
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#39We're considering it for our design system right now, but we're not sure how well it'll work with conventional commits and commitizen.
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#40Nay. Non standard rendering is a problem.