I like to look at it from a different perspective:
Programming has mostly looked the same since we moved away from punchcards, and it seems worthwhile exploring different approaches (eg visual programming) and augmentations to the existing system. Now that we have UTF-8, it's trivial to represent all sorts of characters and use them for coding, and it's only natural that some people try.
Now, while I personally haven't seen a convincing application of using non-ascii beyond comments, that doesn't mean they don't exist. And if people come up with such a way, and a large number of people decide it's a good idea, then tooling in whatever form will follow and make using this new style of coding easy.
I feel like arguing that this should never be done because people don't know where to find the symbols is a bit like arguing we shouldn't build electric vehicles because we don't have a charger network on highways yet..
Programming has mostly looked the same since we moved away from punchcards, and it seems worthwhile exploring different approaches (eg visual programming) and augmentations to the existing system. Now that we have UTF-8, it's trivial to represent all sorts of characters and use them for coding, and it's only natural that some people try.
Now, while I personally haven't seen a convincing application of using non-ascii beyond comments, that doesn't mean they don't exist. And if people come up with such a way, and a large number of people decide it's a good idea, then tooling in whatever form will follow and make using this new style of coding easy.
I feel like arguing that this should never be done because people don't know where to find the symbols is a bit like arguing we shouldn't build electric vehicles because we don't have a charger network on highways yet..