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Emoji in the first title? Emoji in every damn title?

Are children developing webpack?

I hate emoji too, but I think it's even more childish to care so much and be so judgemental about how other people use emoji.

Using emoji everywhere is very much in vogue and many people like it. It doesn't make you childish.

We (for some value of we that includes me and simooo) are just old, or old-fashioned youths.

He's doing because he can, like we used to do with animated gifs in the early 2000s. It's a gimmick. There's no honor here.

After reading the title this was exactly my first thought.

Polluting the titles with emojis feels unnecessary and childish to me. I them a mental burden that makes it difficult to read the important information. I can not imagine a new car announcement page filled with emojis and I don't know why it should be different for software.

I must admit, as I searched, I didn't think I'd find something so on-point: http://media.gm.com/content/dam/Media/images/US/Release_Imag...

Ha! That's gold right there.

I always figured the Egyptians were wrong, with the hieroglyphics. It seems Chevrolet is proving me right :)

Because software development is dry as hell. Cars can go fast and take you places. Variety is nice and sometimes it's okay to be cheerful.

With emojis in the headlines, I look at a tiny picture for 0.2s (usually related to the headline) and then read the section as normal. How can that be a mental burden?

here's my thoughts as I read through it

rocket - webpack 4 beta... Guess that means launch

present - A promise fulfilled... Present, I guess thats ok

confused person - How to install.. hmmm

rocket - performance.. I guess rockets are fast

fire - Better defaults.. err...

Strong arm - Better defaults.. err...

cake - side effects.. what?

Goat? I think it's a goat - Module Type’s Introduced. what the fuck.

Thank you for putting my thoughts into words.

Add shrugging guy on a skateboard ascii art here.

Indeed, it does also feel like the JavaScript community or rather JavaScript related projects seem to be more attracted to emojifying blog posts, release notifications etc... while perhaps a bit informal it’s probably not the end of the world however perhaps indicative of a combination of excitement of the developers involved and some slight lack of maturity.

> some slight lack of maturity

I don't want to live in whatever grey world you folks are imagining where everything is done professionally with no personality.

I totally agree. At the very end of the day people shouldn't kid themselves in this industry. The whole thing is an evolving hack fest which changes each week. We are far closer to script kiddies on the web than we are software professionals but that hurts some peoples feelings.

Something that is also worrying is this culture of competition, by showing, right after the start of the post, "best" contributors, as if lined of code was a key of quality development.

I remember some tools that I appreciate, that quote all contributors, in a non hierarchical way. Even if you contributed something minor, you are listed with "main" contributors.

This isn't our intention, rather to recognize those who helped make webpack what it is today. I wouldn't have been able to fit everyone on one page of image otherwise :)

Something of an off-topic conversation but I think it's quite interesting how modern language is evolving to include pictograms that are common between different languages, and not childish at all. Why must it be a problem?

We just find that it reaches people better!!! Sometimes in the JavaScipt ecosystem it takes a lot for a 6 year old tool to stay on top of people's focus and attn. But it got yours right?

What’s wrong with emojis?

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