[josho]

Agreed. The venn diagram of people that can afford the pro and those that care about emojis is likely rather slim.

However, watching the photoshop demo I could see the value. Honestly though, I think an add on accessory the size of a trackpad would be better. Unfortunately, that would sell in numbers so small that software support would be non-existent. So, this is a compromise solution that doesn't have Apple's usual boldness to it, rather a lacklustre add on that will deliver lacklustre results (to both sales and usefulness).

[jakebasile]

I don't know, I see emoji infiltrating my tools more and more. For example, I had to submit a PR to Yarn [1] to add a flag to disable the terrible things. GitHub uses emoji to indicate the type of commit [2].

I hate it.

Edit: I mean GitHub the company, not the product. Atom is maintained by GitHub.

[1]: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/pull/922

[2]: https://github.com/atom/atom/commits/master

[majewsky]

It's nice how these emoji in [2] do not offer any advantage at all. In fact, they're worse than the appropriate words ("bump", "fix") because I can't Ctrl-F for them.

[jakebasile]

I really do not understand the attraction to it. It makes things harder to read and understand. It can destroy terminal formatting. They're harder to type on physical keyboards.

I don't often use emoji unironically in my personal life, but in computing tools it should be anathema.

[Matachines]

That's not GitHub but the Atom maintainers' commit style.

[jakebasile]

I realize my phrasing was ambiguous, I meant GitHub as an organization, who maintain Atom, use Emoji in that project.

[cygned]

Are the emojis ([2]) actually from GitHub? I have never seen them in my repos.

[bobwaycott]

> Honestly though, I think an add on accessory the size of a trackpad would be better.

Or just make the Magic Trackpad into a Touch Pad with the OLED display and such.

[Kequc]

That's going to be awesome when they release that 4 years from now.