SVGinOT is not the only option, it's complicated in Linux 🙂

For example, eosrei/emojione-color-font that you mentioned is a custom build of EmojiOne to add support for Firefox via SVGinOT technology, but the official Ranks/emojione has emojione-android.ttf which provides color emoji via CBDT/CBLC technology for all Chrome-based apps, as well as all GTK+ apps if you install a patched cairo.

By the way, the font from the official repo consists of the EmojiOne v3, which is a redesigned version of older EmojiOne v2, and the community is working right now to add the latest Unicode 4.0 emojis in the font.

So, in summary it would be a pity to support only SVGinOT stack.

UPDATE 1: CBDT/CBLC fonts seem to work in Firefox as well now.

UPDATE 2: cairo merged the patch in upstream, so it also supports CBDT/CBLC. In other words, CBDT/CBLC technology is supported almost in all apps now on Linux. Alacritty should support it too.

UPDATE 3: With no configuration from my side, Sakura terminal now supports CBDT/CBLC technology to show colorful emojis (do they just use cairo?):

Alacritty doesn't display emoji #153

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