Personally, I hate that [1]. Among many trends on the Internet the excessive use of unnecessary Unicode characters in a log that is supposed to give you an idea of the progress of a project is certainly... Well, as I said, unnecessary. I don't know who came up with this idea (was it GitHub's Atom project?) but every time I find a project on GitHub [2] I immediately start to judge the author(s) decisions and the seriousness of the project.
I understand that everyone is free to manage their project as they please, and the following statement will probably affect my career in the future, but I sincerely hope to never come across a job where my co-workers praise this... I don't even know how to call it... standard?
If you just want these to show up on GitHub specifically, you can use the friendly names like `:ring:`, `:art:`, etc. Then there's no Unicode anywhere but GitHub will still show the emoji. That's how `atom` committers do it.
I understand that everyone is free to manage their project as they please, and the following statement will probably affect my career in the future, but I sincerely hope to never come across a job where my co-workers praise this... I don't even know how to call it... standard?
Very interesting project nonetheless.
[1] https://i.imgur.com/Xek7ZVV.png
[2] Haven't seen this anywhere else.