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The app company Webflow put out a message that they're updating terminology to change uses of the word "master" to "main," following in GitHub's footsteps.
Does anyone know if a single non-white human being has ever taken offense to the use of the word "master" in software terminology?
- I take offense to all language.monNom
- I’m sure someone is offended, yesnb
- Some real estate listings don't use master bedroom or master bath anymore.fooler
- https://www.qbn.com/…Nairn
- Wait until the church people find out all their software is running "daemons" in the background...grafician
- "main" is so offensiveKrassy
- I don't get it. I browsed a convo on Reddit about GitHub's move, and I lost count of the number of people who identified themselves as back and gave no F's.mg33
- https://www.reddit.c…mg33
- All Rooms Matterbezoar
- well they all do this instead of fucking hiring Black people in the first place!grafician
- People need to be less offended. Something is either truth or nonsense. If it’s nonsense why be offended? If it’s true, why be offended?shapesalad
- So what would be a non offensive use of the word ‘master’ then? Can I master any new skills or is that no longer woke?Static_Line
- Considering that this isn't a master/slave term, the move makes even less sense. PLUS! You can name your git branch whatever the fuck you want!section_014
- I'm gonna change all my repos to "overlord". git push origin overlordsection_014
- overlordbate, mainbate .. nopeBattleAxe
- whateversted
- 'Main of Puppets', 'Overloard of Puppets' ...Continuity
- *OverlordContinuity