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Numberwang
This doesn't seem useful at all. blinkyface
moreira
The emoji craze has had the nice side-effect of forcing a lot of projects to make sure their stuff supports Unicode properly, because now it's something that even English-speaking software users can appreciate. It's a good thing.
insulanian
I never thought about it that way. You are right indeed.
jxy
More and more programs supports unicode now. Why stop at Emoji? APL is going to take back the world finally. Anybody still writing a multi-letter identifier in your code? So 80's...
fluxquanta
Is this an April Fools thing or not? I legitimately can't tell and it's making me hate this day even more.
LukeShu
Sort of. The announcement is obviously silly, and April-Fools-y, but the changes in nginx aren't--what it's really about is Unicode in general, not emojis specifically.
ArmTank
Are there any changes? ;)
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BinaryIdiot
Yes but...can I use emojis exactly like in the config? I want to drive my sysadmin crazy :)
gshulegaard
You can, the configs were tested for fun. Go ahead and try them!

(I work at Nginx and Nick sits behind me)

whalesalad
A lot of our internal FarmLogs health check endpoints return the tractor emoji when things are kosher.
notyourwork
That is really cute! Do you have anything for when things are not so kosher? Perhaps a pile of poo or a flame.
ttn
What a time to be alive
devy
April Fool's?
chucky_z
A real announcement (unicode support) in an April Fool's package (doing the announcement only mentioning emoji).

LukeShu nailed it with their reply. :)

pnommensen
There's no real announcement. Check the date :)
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ultramancool
Wait, is NGINX Plus a real thing or is that part of the joke too?
barlo
It's real. It's their commercial offering.
donatj
Lol I'm just imagining trying to edit these configs in vim on a vt220 and crying.
pritambaral
Vim in a current terminal does indeed support entering unicode. I can even type it by value, see :help utf-8-typing