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Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?

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Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?

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Post by rahuldottech »

porker wrote: post #16
rahuldottech wrote: post #3

That'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.

A decent chunk of programmers use GNU/Linux distros. Support is very lacking there.

Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?

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Post by WalterBright »

> With gitmoji others or your future self can simply look at the associated emoji and straightaway catch the intention.

Just like a word does.

> The [bug emoji] emoji is easily recognized as a bug by most people

The word "bug" works for me.

> but will [tulip emoji] immediately signalize that code is removed?

Nope. Besides, we already have commonly used symbols for that, "+" for a line added and "-" for a line deleted. I'm not sure what a tulip has to do with deleting code.

edit: hackernews removed the emoji from my post. (I put in the words for the images.) Another reason to not use emoji.

Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?

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Post by wvh »

> ... and last but not least it definitely adds joy and excitement .

Akin to the person with the boombox on public transport.

I could imagine wanting to highlight some keywords myself – for myself – but now my screen has turned into a colourful shouting competition.

Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?

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Post by iaml »

GeneralMaximus wrote: post #45
Iv wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

Only programmers from English-speaking countries like ASCII. There are millions of us living in other countries who are thankful that Unicode exists, and who are constantly annoyed that a some of our tools don't support it well enough. As someone who grew up bilingual in a country where it's not uncommon for people to speak three or more languages, I hate the idea of being prevented from using one of the languages I…

As a person from another country speaking not-english, I just switch all my devices to english nowadays.

Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?

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Post by scrollaway »

s_kilk wrote: post #50
amarshall wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Too late to edit now, but just realized HN scrubbed the emoji. “…For example, gets read…”

An object lesson in the problems of using emoji to actually convey meaning :)

It's a problem insofar as HN is, on purpose, stripping emoji. Which is a questionable choice...

Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?

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Post by larusso »

josteink wrote: post #52
larusso wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plus the benefit of not being ambiguous like a lipstick emoji :)

I'd actually interpret that as "lipstick on a pig", or just "[hack]". I'm honestly not sure what its intentions are. Which I guess is one of the problems with this suggestion.

Depending on the screen I always see a Rotating police light in red at first.

Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?

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Post by [deleted] »

hwj wrote: post #60
GeneralMaximus wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only programmers from English-speaking countries like ASCII. There are millions of us living in other countries who are thankful that Unicode exists, and who are constantly annoyed that a some of our tools don't support it well enough. As someone who grew up bilingual in a country where it's not uncommon for people to speak three or more languages, I hate the idea of being prevented from using one of the languages I…

I'm not from an English-speaking country, but also like ASCII. It works without setting $LANG, $LC_ALL, ':set enc=utf-8', 'use utf8' and who knows what else.

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Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?

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Post by WalterBright »

Iv wrote: post #36
rahuldottech wrote: post #3

That'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…

I was keying in my confirmation code into the self checkin machine to get my boarding pass the other day. The code was something like EFO123. Was that a letter or a digit? I got it wrong, fortunately the software said it interpreted 0 as O and gave me the ticket.

Now multiply this by a thousand with Unicode exact lookalike glyphs.

Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?

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Post by Aeolun »

WalterBright wrote: post #62

> With gitmoji others or your future self can simply look at the associated emoji and straightaway catch the intention. Just like a word does. > The [bug emoji] emoji is easily recognized as a bug by most people The word "bug" works for me. > but will [tulip emoji] immediately signalize that code is removed? Nope. Besides, we already have commonly used symbols for that, "+" for a line added and "-" for a line deleted…

> [tulip emoji]

Is that what it looks like for you? For me it’s a flame (which seems to make more sense for removing code).

Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?

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Post by saagarjha »

scrollaway wrote: post #65
s_kilk wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An object lesson in the problems of using emoji to actually convey meaning :)

It's a problem insofar as HN is, on purpose, stripping emoji. Which is a questionable choice...

Hacker News does strip all emoji, FWIW.
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