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How about no emojis? Am I the only one who finds these abominations annoying in code/docs? Slack chat? Fine. npm logs with emojis? No thanks.
by systemvoltage 5y ago
How about no emojis? Am I the only one who finds these abominations annoying in code/docs? Slack chat? Fine. npm logs with emojis? No thanks.
- duxup 5y agoMore emojis! (Ok not really)
- eyelidlessness 5y agoYou’re welcome to that opinion but you’re just going to age restrict yourself and have artificially limited impact informing others ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- eyelidlessness 5y agoOkay, since this felt like common knowledge and apparently is also an unpopular opinion: emojis can and often do improve accessibility of documentation. Like any other symbolic reference in text, their use can be defined in a key and they can be used to concisely document a support matrix, or signal complexity levels of deeper links, or… even just thematically identify content in a friendly and inviting way.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoDo they? Even if you use them perfectly consistently, people need to know what they mean. For some really common ones that might be fine (green check mark on CI probably means the build ran successfully), but the moment anyone gets confused or doesn't recognize a symbol I feel like accessibility drops off a cliff.
- consp 5y agoConsidering in some cultures the meaning of red and green are somewhat reversed from westeren I would not be so sure about that. I remember being in the traffic management center in Tokyo for an arranged visit and thought the entire city had come to a halt but red was high throughput not stoppage.
- chakkepolja 5y agoI am a generation Z zoomer and people using emoji in code / docs scream immaturity to me.
- FroshKiller 5y agoI frequently place emoji in code files and database scripts to ensure other people aren't using the wrong encoding in their editors when working on our projects.