I swear the software industry chose to handle emojis in the most annoying way possible. Why do I have to bother with code points and add a special code path to render them as images? Why can't projects just use a font which contains the latest emojis and let the OS/browser handle the rest? This way, it wouldn't even matter if my font gets out of date because then the OS font would be used.
But noooooo, emojis have to be special little snowflakes