Emojis have more or less taken over the English language. No text or tweet can really be thought complete without a little ๐๐ฅ๐ to drive home the message.
Now, one of the last bastions of the written words has finally gone over to the light side โ a new programming language employs emoji to run commands and make programs.
And emojicode is not a superficial language either. Itโs a high-level programming language that supports cross-platform applications and executes commands faster than a typical virtual processor. In the words of its creators:
Emojicode is a delimiter-less, object orientated, imperative, high-level, hybrid language. Its language fix points and methods are emoji. Emojicode has a focus on integrating systems well, being Unicode compatible, and providing a stable and consistent interface.
You may still need traditional text to set variables, but the language is remarkably emoji-proficient. However, reading the how-to guide takes you down something of a rabbit hole of bizarre sentence structure and half-emotion, half-technical application confusion.
This is the minimum structure every program must have. ๐ ๐ผ๏ฟผ ๐ defines a class called ๐ผ. ๐๐ ๏ฟฝโก๏ธโก๏ธ ๐ ๐ defines a class method called ๐, which returns ๐, an integer. ๐ 0 returns the value.
There is a certain amount of logic in the way the program uses emoji. For example: โWhen a program is run, the class method ๐ is called to start the program.โ That makes sense: A racing flag signals โGo.โ
On the other hand, weโre not sure what to make of a sentence like this one: โ๐ ๏ฟผ๐ก ๐ says: Extend the class ๐ก (Thatโs the string class). ๐ ๐ท โก๏ธ ๐ก๏ฟผ declares a method called ๐ท and returning an instance of the ๐ก class๏ฟผ๏ฟผ.โ
