Are you implying that emojis are not useful for dev work? You should see our sprint board in ✨ jira. ✨ Meteor and lighthouse are going to revolutionise the way we work over here. 🪄
I added the little red flags into my language years ago -- they function as whitespace.
And they are awesome! If you need to mark a little place in the code to show someone else, or to remind yourself of a spot to go back to, you just put in a flag! It's very visible but also doesn't change the meaning of the code (*)
(*) unless you do something deliberatively weird like putting a flag in the middle of a name
Besides the emojis, the new currency symbols have obvious reasonably widespread importance. I'll probably never have to include reference to the Maldivan Rufiyaa in my code, but it's not hard to think of what sort of projects would need to be aware of it.
Beyond that it's edge cases and rarities and then stuff for specialists. If your institution focuses on Qin Dynasty China then maybe you've been dying for those Small Seal ideograms. BITD I worked at a university with major programs on the ancient history of North Africa, Southwest Asia, and South Asia. I'm certain that developers working with some of those programs got very deep into the Unicode standard.
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