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Emojis are fine in text messages and IM/Slack. I don't think its a good idea to use Emojis in technical documentation, terminal cli apps, package managers (I'm looking at you npm), long form articles, PRs and code reviews, etc. I just find them distracting since they stand out strongly in a block of text - eyes instantly gravitate to colorful emojis in a rather smooth flow of text.

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> I don't think its a good idea to use Emojis in technical documentation, terminal cli apps, package managers (I'm looking at you npm), long form articles, PRs and code reviews, etc.

Completely agree. I also find emoji in commit messages [1] to be far more ambiguous than their text equivalents.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21760021

There's some emojis I don't mind in prs, like rocketship for deploy and the worm for bug fixes

haha, that rocketship is forever associated with r/wallstreetbets and "To the moon" meme for me.

Well, investors were always referring to the steep, high momentum upward trend as a rocket..

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