It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

  • Sinthesis@lemmy.world
    4450·
    30 days ago

    unfair treatment.

    We’re talking about slavery here.

    sick of having to relabel

    It’s not that hard…to be accommodating.

    divorced from the social issues

    from your point of view

    the code doesn’t care

    You’re right. Call it a controller and agent. I know naming is hard, but we’re smart enough to apply our lexicon.

    never use the words master or slave ever again? What’s next??

    Ah, the slippery slope fallacy.

    We still use master over main

    The default for new repositories on GitHub has been main for awhile now. You would have had to put in effort to change it to something else. You’re a stick in the mud.

    • Tyoda@lemm.ee
      131·
      29 days ago

      The default for git repositories is still master. Not to be the “real programmers only use CLI” guy, but I feel like git init isn’t too hipster.

      • Sinthesis@lemmy.world
        1·
        29 days ago

        …which you get a multiline message telling you to change your ways (Linus doesn’t break UX)…every time you init…weird.

        $ git init
hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all
hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:
hint:
hint: 	git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
hint:
hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
hint:
hint: 	git branch -m <name>
        • Tyoda@lemm.ee
          3·
          29 days ago

          Gonna be honest, I don’t think I ever read that. I think I usually just do git status immediately after to see if all’s well.

      • femtech@midwest.social
        13·
        29 days ago

        The default has been main for awhile.

        This is the case in our current version of git (git version 2.28. 0). As of October 1, 2020, any new repository you create on GitHub.com will use main as the default branch.

        March 2021 for gitlab

    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2219·
      30 days ago

      Fuck I don’t get your downvotes, you’re right. I get people want to vent but in the greater scheme of things having to use different words to be a smidge more inclusive isn’t that big of a deal or effort considering what some of us do to help our friends be accepted.

      • warbond@lemmy.world
        67·
        29 days ago

        It’s so weird that so many people are calling being accommodating in such a small way “performative” or whatever! I think some people just can’t handle change and blame others for it.

        • orrk@lemmy.world
          142·
          29 days ago

          or it’s just literally performative and doesn’t actually change anything about the realities of being POC in America other than making (ironically) a bunch of white people feel good about themselves.