While this is a real issue, that effects terminals in real-world use, I took issue with this quote:
> This issue affects every terminal I've tested: Visual Studio Code, iTerm2, Alacritty, and Hyper.
I don't think those terminals are particularly known for being feature-complete with regards to VT/ANSI codes or new developments such as emoji. The quantity of things a VT-ish terminal must do is massive and not standardized, so many terminals just cover the common cases and nobody notices that they're incomplete.
If the author noted that emojis don't work properly in xterm (not xterm.js) or konsole, then that'd be something to write home about.
For reference, I've written a terminal emulator fairly recently, and found xterm to be most faithful and also a great source of documentation in itself. In personal use though, konsole is pleasant and seems to do everything I've seen right.
On the other hand, currently writing this from mac and iterm2 is kind of terrible, send help.
> This issue affects every terminal I've tested: Visual Studio Code, iTerm2, Alacritty, and Hyper.
I don't think those terminals are particularly known for being feature-complete with regards to VT/ANSI codes or new developments such as emoji. The quantity of things a VT-ish terminal must do is massive and not standardized, so many terminals just cover the common cases and nobody notices that they're incomplete.
If the author noted that emojis don't work properly in xterm (not xterm.js) or konsole, then that'd be something to write home about.
For reference, I've written a terminal emulator fairly recently, and found xterm to be most faithful and also a great source of documentation in itself. In personal use though, konsole is pleasant and seems to do everything I've seen right. On the other hand, currently writing this from mac and iterm2 is kind of terrible, send help.