Emojis have more or less taken over the English language. No text or tweet can really be thought complete without a little ππ₯π to drive home the message.
Now, one of the last bastions of the written words has finally gone over to the light side β a new programming language employs emoji to run commands and make programs.
And emojicode is not a superficial language either. Itβs 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. π πΌοΏΌ π defines a class called πΌ. ππ οΏ½β‘οΈβ‘οΈ π π defines a class method called π, which returns π, an integer. π 0 returns the value.
There is a certain amount of logic in the way the program uses emoji. For example: βWhen a program is run, the class method π is called to start the program.β That makes sense: A racing flag signals βGo.β
On the other hand, weβre not sure what to make of a sentence like this one: βπ οΏΌπ‘ π says: Extend the class π‘ (Thatβs the string class). π π· β‘οΈ π‘οΏΌ declares a method called π· and returning an instance of the π‘ classοΏΌοΏΌ.β
