If emoticons are good, emojis are fine too. They convey the exact same thing; they just look different.
That’s the problem though. They look different. Emoticons blend in perfectly with a line of text. Emojis don’t. Their disgusting contorted yellow faces steal your attention away from the text. Non-colored Emojis (like this site has) are a little better, but I still don’t like 'em.
We don’t have any emoji. Our Markdown engine converts emoticons into the matching Unicode character and your OS displays whatever it uses for that character, but if you paste actual emoji into your post, we store that.
Why?
Because Apple sucks.
Quite a few developers and IT people would disagree with your assessment 😃 Most of the best software you see these days — not just the best native apps, but web sites — is built using Apple hardware. There are reasons why Microsoft has been racing to make its core products, like .NET and SQL Server, cross-platform, while adding bash and other Unix-y things to their own stack. If you’d suggested MS would be porting SQL Server to run on Linux even 5 years ago, you would’ve been laughed out of the room.
At my company, you only get Windows hardware if you request it, and then all your team members hate you because getting everything up and running on your machine is a chore.
Don’t get me wrong. Windows 10 is a good OS and I use it on my gaming rig, because as great as Macs are, they’re still pointless for real gaming. But I still think the best Windows laptop is a MacBook Pro running Bootcamp 😉
My new favorite editor is VS Code, btw.