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If you think .java is brave, wait until you hear about Mojo's extension: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojo_(programming_language)

They allow the extension to be the fire emoji

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Maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon but things like "you can use emojis as variables" (or in this case "the extension can be an emoji") scream amateur hour and a lack of seriousness to me. There's zero benefit, IMO, other than "it's quirky".

Which is a shame because the people who created Mojo are definitely not amateurs.

Full support for Unicode has a lot of benefit to people who don't speak English.

But, when you're trying to show off your Unicode support to Californians, emojis get more reaction than umlauts.

Wouldn't it be harder to implement and therefore indicative of higher effort, if anything?

> amateur hour and a lack of seriousness to me.

These things seem unrelated—experienced people are allowed to have fun too. I don't see how this correlates with lack of experience at all. This just speaks to your personal bias against having fun.

I looked through the mojo docs and it looks like the tech behind mojo might be great, but they have a really weird marketing strategy. So I'd like to believe that the emoji extension is the annoying marketing half of the really cool tech behind it.

I had to answer my own question the other day -- can you make a table or a column in MS SQL that is simply an emoji?

Yes. Yes you can.

And God help us all.

Also valid in CSS class names. CSS modules, or one of the loaders in webpack, could be told to use them when munging class names [it's been a long time and I'm unsure of the webpack terminology and which one it was].

Don't give me ideas!

I am literally going to put some CSS emoji easter eggs in my web app right now... o_O

Hot take: we should include emojis as reserved words in programming languages.

I once included U+2620 'SKULL AND CROSSBONES' as a synonym for 'poison' in a language I was working on.

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