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Jul 2, 2018 at 21:00
Adding dragon emoji as semicolons in node.js or the typescript compiler: https://blog.angularindepth.com/instead-of-semicolons-what-if-you-could-code-with-dragons-df5d0a4ef4ee Nice post showing that working with programming language implementations need not be scary!

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