What does the word "Mojo" has to do with fire to begin with? Is this some new output of meme culture? Do kids today consider the ability to create mojo using stones as the first step towards human civilisation?

Mojo is a word for magic. Meme magic is a thing. Fire emoji is a meme.

That’s my attempt at making the connection.

It also just seems like a fun thing kids do. I don’t even know how to enter an emoji as a file extension so it could be a way to filter out oldsters who don’t know the new ways.

It's also a vulgar reference to the male anatomy in parts of South America. So...bonus?

I guess that explains the eggplant emoji file extension.

I think the fire emoji is part of the name...

Like it's meant to be represented as mojo[fire emoji]...

It might have accessibility implications too. An extension which is visually busy, hard to type, and confuses people on screen readers seems like the worst of all worlds.

This is of course why you can still use .mojo.

Which only helps if you’re programming by yourself all the time and never look at anyone else’s code.

We should strive to make the world and programming more accessible, not less. We can’t even discuss the extension on HN without spelling it out in different ways.

You can use emoji as identifiers in several different programming languages. I can count the number of times I've seen it actually used on one hand.

There is a large difference between “you are able to use emoji inside some files” and “we’re recommending emoji as the default for every file name”.

I don’t see them doing this?

Really? The file extension is an emoji?

Decisions like that make me very wary about the quality of other decisions made in the language.

Can be an emoji. the file extension is .mojo or [fire]

>and unprofessional

God forbid in this era of corporate assimilation any rogue geeks do anything unprofessional!

I don't think that a closed source language created by a corporation really meets the definition of "rogue geeks"

Xerox and AT&T were very much "serious" corporations, but both had very gogue geeks...

Then Apple copied Xerox's work, and hired very vogue geeks.

Sounds like you didn’t put in much effort if this was your main takeaway?