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by Zababa 1610 days ago
I have a rant about "object emojis" and "feelings emojis". The short version is: using emojis to express emotion is great, using them to talk about objects sucks. This documentation is using them to talk about objects, which sucks. In those cases either you have to parse them mentally, or read every word they replace twice (like in that documentation). It's bad. We have a thing to talk about objects in text: text. Words, letters, stuff like that.

"Feeling emojis" are great because they emulate non-verbal communication. A smile is a smile, a thumbs up is a "hm" or "okay". Text communication is by nature asynchronous so we have to find ways to cope with that. On the other hand, documentation doesn't need non-verbal communication.

Of course, some emojis can be used for both verbal and non-verbal communication. But stuff like burger? Or cashier? I don't see the point.

Another thing: this is possibly the worst explanation about concurrency and async/await I've ever read.