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If you think .java is brave, wait until you hear about Mojo's extension: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojo_(programming_language) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/

If you think .java is brave, wait until you hear about Mojo's extension: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojo_(programming_language) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojo_(programming_language) They allow the extension to be the fire emoji

CSMastermind 3y ago
Hot take: we should include emojis as reserved words in programming languages.
- marssaxman 3y ago
  I once included U+2620 'SKULL AND CROSSBONES' as a synonym for 'poison' in a language I was working on.
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lp0_on_fire 3y ago
Maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon but things like "you can use emojis as variables" (or in this case "the extension can be an emoji") scream amateur hour and a lack of seriousness to me. There's zero benefit, IMO, other than "it's quirky". Which is a shame because the people who created Mojo are definitely not amateurs.
- nix0n 3y ago
  Full support for Unicode has a lot of benefit to people who don't speak English. But, when you're trying to show off your Unicode support to Californians, emojis get more reaction than umlauts.
- skeaker 3y ago
  Wouldn't it be harder to implement and therefore indicative of higher effort, if anything?
- MrRolleyes 3y ago
  > amateur hour and a lack of seriousness to me. These things seem unrelated—experienced people are allowed to have fun too. I don't see how this correlates with lack of experience at all. This just speaks to your personal bias against having fun.
- hn92726819 3y ago
  I looked through the mojo docs and it looks like the tech behind mojo might be great, but they have a really weird marketing strategy. So I'd like to believe that the emoji extension is the annoying marketing half of the really cool tech behind it.
qingcharles 3y ago
I had to answer my own question the other day -- can you make a table or a column in MS SQL that is simply an emoji? Yes. Yes you can. And God help us all.
- Izkata 3y ago
  Also valid in CSS class names. CSS modules, or one of the loaders in webpack, could be told to use them when munging class names [it's been a long time and I'm unsure of the webpack terminology and which one it was].
  - qingcharles 3y ago
    Don't give me ideas! I am literally going to put some CSS emoji easter eggs in my web app right now... o_O

CSMastermind 3y ago

Hot take: we should include emojis as reserved words in programming languages.

marssaxman 3y ago
I once included U+2620 'SKULL AND CROSSBONES' as a synonym for 'poison' in a language I was working on.
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  [deleted]

lp0_on_fire 3y ago

Maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon but things like "you can use emojis as variables" (or in this case "the extension can be an emoji") scream amateur hour and a lack of seriousness to me. There's zero benefit, IMO, other than "it's quirky". Which is a shame because the people who created Mojo are definitely not amateurs.

nix0n 3y ago
Full support for Unicode has a lot of benefit to people who don't speak English. But, when you're trying to show off your Unicode support to Californians, emojis get more reaction than umlauts.
skeaker 3y ago
Wouldn't it be harder to implement and therefore indicative of higher effort, if anything?
MrRolleyes 3y ago
> amateur hour and a lack of seriousness to me. These things seem unrelated—experienced people are allowed to have fun too. I don't see how this correlates with lack of experience at all. This just speaks to your personal bias against having fun.
hn92726819 3y ago
I looked through the mojo docs and it looks like the tech behind mojo might be great, but they have a really weird marketing strategy. So I'd like to believe that the emoji extension is the annoying marketing half of the really cool tech behind it.

qingcharles 3y ago

I had to answer my own question the other day -- can you make a table or a column in MS SQL that is simply an emoji? Yes. Yes you can. And God help us all.

Izkata 3y ago
Also valid in CSS class names. CSS modules, or one of the loaders in webpack, could be told to use them when munging class names [it's been a long time and I'm unsure of the webpack terminology and which one it was].
- qingcharles 3y ago
  Don't give me ideas! I am literally going to put some CSS emoji easter eggs in my web app right now... o_O