[bsaul]

You are opening the gates to hell, and don't even realize it.

The same is happening pretty much everywhere in society, where everything becomes contextual and should be adapted to the personal sensitivities of individuals. Which is fine for everything that's fashionable.

But code isn't (just) litterature or art or fashion. The first and foremost concern of code is to convey a precise meaning so that reader (and compilers) understand it correctly.

How do you know it is going to stop to slavery ? How about every single people in the world start getting offended by words in code because it may remind them of something painful in their history, or just doesn't suit their culture / religion / whatever ?

Will you have to create different branch of the linux kernel depending on where the code is going to be cloned ? Where is this going ?

PS: i appreciate greatly that you say you wouldn't force anyone to change their wording, and only change it for yourself. I believe that's the right thing to do. But i feel you greatly underestimate the long-term consequences of supporting for "inclusive terminology"

[wonder_er]

> You are opening the gates to hell, and don't even realize it.

That might be true! I suspect and hope that I'm not, but only time will tell.

> i appreciate greatly that you say you wouldn't force anyone to change their wording, and only change it for yourself. I believe that's the right thing to do. But i feel you greatly underestimate the long-term consequences of supporting for "inclusive terminology"

Yeah! As soon as someone says "here's a good thing I'm trying to do AND YOU ALL HAVE TO DO THE SAME OR BE SHAMED" they kinda lose my respect.

I can update branches on my personal stuff with zero consequence in 30 seconds. Easy.

Complicated CircleCI/deploy environments where branch names are hardcoded in a dozen different places, and the app is on fire already, and no one has time, and the manager is trying to hire new developers while keeping the senior devs happy?

I'm not gonna throw shade on them at all.

That all said, I would _love_ to talk about this more, if you're feeling inclined at all. I tried to dig up an email address for you, and couldn't find it. If you'd be willing to swap some emails on the topic, i'd be thrilled! Hit me up at [e-mail]!

[CJefferson]

Do you think, in most of these cases, master/slave is really the most precise terms we can come up with?

[bsaul]

i think a "master slave" architecture has become a very clear pattern in distributed systems, that anyone in the field recognize (as something opposed to a peer to peer for example).

this is precious, because it saves a lot of explanation time and ambiguities.

Once again i wouldn't mind using a different term if it made things even clearer for a given case. But only for this reason, and not for PC.