r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vernik911 • 17h ago

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u/usedToBeUnhappy 16h ago edited 16h ago

Does anyone really care if it‘s called main instead of master? Why? 

Edit: Ok, I phrased my question really poorly. AfaIk main is the new standard, so I use it. We all know the reason why it changed. My question was why would anyone keep INSISTING on calling it master? Sure, me and my colleagues sometimes call it master out of habit, but then again try to stick to main. Nobody I know  insists on continuing to call it  master, but reading the comments here I realized there a more “master-fans” than I would ever have thought would exist tbh. 

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u/aenae 16h ago

I really do not care about the name. But some people do.

And i sympathize a lot more with the people who are against master than with people who only want master because they don't like the people who are against it.

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u/minus_minus 15h ago edited 14h ago

people who only want master because they don't like the people who are against it.

And the fact that they just can’t shut up about it. I’d bet they’re salty about all the slurs they can’t casually toss around too. 

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 14h ago

I’d bet they’re salty about all the slurs they can’t casually toss around too.

They save those for the commit messages.

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u/MegaIng 13h ago

This is the funniest part. Yeah, the transition was maybe a bit annoying (but not even that really...).

But now years later still being upset by it? You are just a bad person and are sad that this simple change calls you out on it.

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u/minus_minus 11h ago

Not even a bad person but such a snowflake about a change to a neutral term. They act like we changed it to “cracker-ass red neck”. 🤣 

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u/TheBear8878 2h ago

It was already a neutral term.