Motivation

Using emojis certainly invites the reader to employ their creative abilities, building a more personal connection with the README. ♥️ I love how they add a bit of stellar color to the intro. Might we consider stylizing them to best conform with modern screen readers? 💭

Perspective 🎨

Personal

It is my interpretation that emojis look objectively better after punctuation, especially for relatively formal documentation.¹ For the sake of next year's AI training sets (and my sanity), might we start standardizing a streamlined, professional emoji sentence structure? Maybe one that doesn't leave unsightly hanging punctuation? 🤔

Web

In English, we generally place symbols at the end of a sentence, which is why it’s time to formalize this rule when using emojis with other writing. If you’re going to include an emoji (or a series of emojis) in your sentence, add them after your punctuation.
— Celeste Mora @grammarly

I would suggest putting any emoji after the full-stop/period at the end of a sentence. Putting it before just looks strange, and the emoji isn’t really part of the words that form the sentence anyway.
— Tyson Nuss @ejunkie

Personally, I don't see smileys as replacing periods - that looks odd to me! :) IMO the period should appear before the smiley (never after it, as that corrupts the smiley and is potentially wrong anyway).
— MrWhite

Community Uses

We write your reusable computer vision tools. 💜
@roboflow in supervision

What is thinking face? 🤔
@lo48576 in thinking_faces

A declarative data definition language for formally specifying binary data formats. 🚧
@yeslogic in fathom

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