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		neuroelectron 44 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023) I feel like we should go back to ASCII for programming languages. Does your IDE really need emojis? Parsing unicode is intractable.

zzo38computer 43 days ago [–]

I agree, and I still do use ASCII for (most) programming languages. I do not use emojis and most programs I wrote do not use Unicode (although often there is a use to go beyond ASCII, but even then, I will use better character sets rather than Unicode).

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