What’s special is that they are inherently visual instead of symbolic. What happens when the culture shifts and :bug: is replaced by :pile-of-shit: ? We now must remember that 5 years ago, we used :bug: to mean software defect but after that one blog post we all use :pile-of-shit:?
It’s like the second derivative of the floppy-disk-means-save problem, but pushed into our terminals where despite their drawbacks things must generally have a relatively fixed meaning devoid of the context required to interpret purely visual signifiers.
If you mean that performance improved just write PERF instead of :lightning-bolt:
What happens when the culture shifts and "bug" is used to mean "software defect" and "story" is used to mean "action item"?
Re:Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?
by chrisseaton on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @11:03AM
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Just seems like any other language evolution to me?
They are plaintext. They’re Unicode characters just like abc. There’s nothing special about them!