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Re:My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website by xenadu02 on Thursday July 18, 2024 @05:11PM (#40999790)
When some people were proposing Swift remove the ability to use Emoji in variable names this was my reply:

> It’s hella presumptuous to decide that I’m not allowed to express whimsy, frustration, humor, or any other emotions in my code. Or to tell an 8 year old using Playgrounds on the iPad that he/she can’t name a variable :pig: purely because they find it funny. We don’t have to squash the joy out of everything.

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Re:My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website by vladxyz on Thursday July 18, 2024 @06:12PM (#41000240)
As soon as I realized I could have emoji in bash function names I did a thing[0] with it. It breaks shellcheck, annoys people who I try to convince to use it, but it makes me very happy.

[0] https://code.ofvlad.xyz/v/lightning-runner

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