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by skybrian 709 days ago
Yes, good example. On the other hand, emojis seem pretty popular, and many programming languages do support non-ascii symbols in identifiers. We just don’t use them much for actual code.

Along with markdown, there’s also increasing support for math equations in forums and blogging software.

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Emojis have universal appeal. Coding symbols doesn't.

Math symbols are a better example, but also extremely well established, and it's still taken a very long time to get widespread support, and it's still far from universal.

But note that non-ASCII symbols etc. was an example of the difficulty of even getting support for something "that simple". Now try to take the step up to e.g a node-based editor.