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Comment by bqmjjx0kac | Hacker News Reader

I regret to inform you that the latest release of `find` has been renamed to [magnifying glass emoji].

For example,

    # Find directories the old way.
    find . -type d

    # The cool new way!
    [magnifying glass emoji] . -[keyboard] [folder emoji]

Edit: HN appears to strip emojis, so my new edited comment doesn't pack the same punch.

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I look forward to hieroglyphic CLI interfaces, where we compute like it's 2600 BC.

At 2600 BC hieroglyphs already included symbols used for phonetic spelling, so hieroglyphs are not the way to go if you want to get rid of spelled out words unless you ban the subset that can be directly mapped to greek letters[1]. Otherwise it just ends up a fancy font.

[1]https://youtu.be/NIxn9auks24?t=2009

That literally every ancient civilization went from pictures to words as fast as they could should say something about modern icon only design.

You jest, but I'm not sure that is a bad idea. bash/zsh seem happy with emojis as function/alias names, and I can input emojis easy enough. In fact some emojis are easier to type in my chosen layout than the string necessary to disambiguate completion for some commands.

Thanks for the idea, and I'll redirect co-worker scorn at U+1F984 for `git push` towards you ;)

Edit to add: Using emoji for commands/arguments is actually quite workable with global aliases or custom zle widgets in zsh, and moderately workable by using $INPUTRC to specify text replacements for readline if you're a bash user.

Had a developer change some config file names to emoji based file names. Boss thought his computer was broken when he took a look at some output txt file. He wasn't amused even though it was April 1.

similar c++ proposal from April 1998: https://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf

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