> I'm not sure we're losing much by not having them

A more rapid decline into reddit-like meaninglessness of communication?

As much as you and I don't care for emoji, there's a non-zero population of developers that _do_ use emoji on a daily basis. In fact, it's one of our top 5 most requested features on our UserVoice page.

I certainly don't care for them in my terminal output, but I live to serve :P

linuxbrew certainly uses them a lot in the terminal.