Yep. I was thinking "X11 again? Is X.Org forking?"
We added a space to the title with a dismaying feeling that it would not be enough.
I thought the exact same thing.
Came here to say this. I hope the fact that I'm using my very limited noprocrast window to say this adds weight to this expression of my disappointment.
I'm just posting to say that I agree, and I have nothing else to add to this conversation.
Welcome * 11 instead, perhaps?
Welcome × 11. There have been some developments in character sets since the 60s, not that you’d know from our programming languages.
Sadly, there has been comparatively few developments in keyboard hardware and input schemes since the 60s.
Huh?
On DE-International that is on [AltGr]+[Shift]+[,]: ×
That doesn't look very different from the letter x though, I think I'd still prefer the asterisk even if there was a × button on my keyboard.
There has been a × key on the normal PC keyboard since 1986, on the numeric keypad section.
[citation needed] I'm looking at my 1992 Model M right now and it has just a "*", unless you count "+" as a lopsided "×".
Depends on the manufacturer – some, like a Keytronic I can see from here, definitely have a × glyph.
Julia has support for unicode in the language (unicode identifiers, etc) and even has some operators/functions (they are the same thing in julia) aliased as their usual symbols, like "in" is aliased to "∈".