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Show HN: Turn JavaScript code into Emoji using Webpack

by mechazawa on 7/13/17, 1:06 PM with 5 comments

• by haburka on 7/13/17, 2:05 PM

  This should be the industry standard for uglifying js. I would love to inspect source of websites and find out that everything is an emoji.

• by vesinisa on 7/13/17, 2:29 PM

  Heh, this is quite funny. By quick reading, it seems to just encode the input JavaScript source bytes into emoji. A further development idea would be to parse the input file with one of the JavaScript JavaScript parsers, encode only select keywords, operators and number / string constants in emoji and leave the rest as as-is.

  One could select clever emoji for the keywords (eg. if=pondering face, while=ferris wheel etc.) to produce a kind of shortened visual JavaScript emoji syntax.

• by danesparza on 7/13/17, 2:11 PM

  I love that the question of 'WHY?!' is asked and answered on their Github project page.

• by runnr_az on 7/18/17, 10:07 PM

  I work on an emoji-related project and always joke about the whole stack being emoji. Now, i can be soooo serious about it.

  Uhhh... thx?