Azure-functions-core-tools: Make it relatively easy for folks to get ASCII art

[jeffhollan]

Always thought it was a fun touch, ideally something folks could easily pop in to get ASCII art back

[pragnagopa]

@anthonychu - Assigned this issue to you for now. Please add details on how we would like to bring the logo back and assign it back to me. Thanks!

[jeffhollan]

A few thoughts

1. Some environment variable I can set on my machine that’d pop logo
2. We do nothing. In a month most everyone will stop caring the ASCII art is gone 😂
3. We create a smaller version of the art

[anthonychu]

@jeffhollan Can you come up with a smaller version of the logo to consider?

I vote for option 1. Also make a slight change to the first line so it's clear where the command starts.

$ func start

⚡️ Azure Functions Core Tools

Core Tools Version: 3.0.2881 (fa9641a)
Function Runtime Version: 3.0.14287.0

Worker process started and initialized.

1. We do nothing. In a month most everyone will stop caring the ASCII art is gone 😂

Not sure if I can stay away from GitHub and Twitter for that long!

[jeffhollan]

Honestly the emoji isn't a bad option. This is the best I could pull off while still trying to capture the general logo:

      @   %%%   @
     @   %%%%    @
    @   %%%%%%    @
     @     %%%   @
      @    %%   @
       @   %   @

My vote is the emoji and bold that Anthony showed

[marcduiker]

I'm definitely on #teamAsciiArt 😅. But emojis are a nice alternative . Could we include the angle brackets as well please if we go emoji style?

<⚡> ​Azure Functions Core Tools

[manekinekko]

I am on ##teamAsciiArt as well. But sometimes, I wish I had an option to turn it off (when spawning core tools in sub processes, from external tools).

I vote for option 1 and +1 @anthonychu's suggestion 👍

[calloncampbell]

I'm definitely on #TeamAsciiArt . If the idea was to reduce noise when running in CLI, then provide a flag to show/hide the art or provide the art in debug only mode.

I also like the emojis in addition to the art.

[SalehAlbuga]

Voting for Ascii Art & Emojis. Best of both worlds.
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[anthonychu]

Just tried a few things. Emojis and bold text look great in terminals that support it (macOS terminal).

Sadly it doesn't do so well in VS Code (macOS):

And even worse on Windows (PowerShell and VS Code):

Looks like the formatting needs to stay pretty basic.

[jeffhollan]

Haha bold with no emoji is fine. Don’t spend any more of your weekend on this 😂. If folks have a better option the PRs are open

[anthonychu]

In the latest version of Core Tools, set an environment variable named FUNCTIONS_CORE_TOOLS_DISPLAY_LOGO to true to bring back ascii art in func start.