Chris Lattner
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, so, okay, so take a step back.
I mean, come on, Lex, do you think that the world's ready for this?
This is a big moment in the world, right?
This is innovation.
Well, and like you take a step back and look at what file extensions are, right?
They're basically metadata.
And so why are we spending all the screen space on them and all the stuff?
Also, you have them stacked up next to text files and PDF files and whatever else.
If you're going to do something cool, you want it to stand out.
Emojis are colorful.
They're visual.
They're beautiful.
The one problem I've seen is that Git doesn't escape it right.
And so it thinks that the fire emoji is unprintable, and so it prints out weird hex things if you use the command line Git tool.
But everything else, as far as I'm aware, works fine.
And I have faith that Git can be improved.
And so GitHub is fine.
GitHub is fine.
Yep.
GitHub is fine.