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Can your terminal do emojis? How big?

(dgl.cx)
178 points dgl | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 02:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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sebtron ◴[24 Jun 25 06:52 UTC] No.44363495[source]▶
Am I the only one who actually dislikes the recent trend of putting emojis everywhere in CLI tools? I am ok with red and yellow text for errors and warning, and I can stand green for success (though I find it useless), but emoji's are just distracting.
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1. adastra22 ◴[24 Jun 25 06:59 UTC] No.44363533[source]▶
It was cute before it was everywhere thanks to LLMs.
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2. uncircle ◴[24 Jun 25 07:15 UTC] No.44363608[source]▶
It was already annoying before LLMs got popular. Now it’s gotten out of hand <rocket emoji>

Emojis in repos and CLI tools is the textual counterpart to the soulless Alegria art style: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis