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

• DagAgren 7y ago
  "Programmers don't like this because Linux is shit" isn't a great argument against anything, really.
  • epse 7y ago
    While you are right, I don't think calling something shit is the best way to point that out
  • danShumway 7y ago
    Git is for programmers. What other demographic should we be caring about? If I'm an Android dev, it might bother me that application suspend is deliberately mishandled on tons of lower-end devices to improve battery life. Should I just ignore those users? If I'm making an email client, it might bother me that Gmail's IMAP support is crap. Should I stop supporting Gmail in my client? Tools make concessions for the platforms and environments that they'll run in. They always have, and they always will. You get to ignore platforms if you're comfortable saying, "my stuff isn't for the users of those platforms." But so many programmers are on Linux, it probably isn't feasible for most OS projects to ignore them. None of that means that Linux shouldn't have better emoji support. It should. It's embarrassing that it doesn't. But, you have to deal with the world as it exists today.
  • spadros 7y ago
    "Programmers don't like this (shit) tool addition you wrote because it doesn't work with the existing (shit) programming tools" is a better paraphrase TBH.
    • DagAgren 7y ago
      I mean, it works fine with my tools, I just choose not to use shit ones?