Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?

Re:Gitmoji – Yay or Nay? by reaperducer on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @11:53AM (#21764269)

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.

While I agree that emoji shouldn't be used in git, it's worth noting that the limitations you point out are platform-specific, and not universal.

in macOS, emoji work very well in any app that chooses to allow them, including the terminal. Typing emoji is as simple as double-clicking on the character you want from the pane that pops down from the menu bar.

Linux may not have first-class support for emoji, and Windows may not have first-class support for emoji. But those are limitations of the operating systems, and not of the emoji, themselves.

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Re:Gitmoji – Yay or Nay? by mook on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @12:29PM (#21764679)

> Typing emoji is as simple as double-clicking on the character you want from the pane that pops down from the menu bar.

… Which means getting your hands off the keyboard. That is why I don't like being forced to type emoji; it requires a (physical) context switch.

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