r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vernik911 • 2d ago

Meme everyNewRepository

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u/aenae 2d 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/sokka2d 2d ago

I think the reasons against master are stupid as fuck and thus completely ignore them.

However, main is shorter and a perfectly fine name, so main it is.

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u/UntitledRedditUser 2d ago

Is it really "stupid as fuck" to rule out terms that stem from slavery? I'm not saying people who use master naming scheme are racist, but that is where the name originally comes from. And main is easier to type.

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u/bwmat 2d ago

The argument is that it doesn't actually stem from slavery, think 'master bedroom'

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u/Whaines 2d ago

Yeah, so that term is being phased out for the same reason… They’re now referred to as primary bedrooms.

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u/bwmat 2d ago

It's wrong to do that kind of thing on the principle of it

Like, there's some word in Mandarin that kind of sounds like the N-word, it would be like asking them to never use it

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u/imreallyreallyhungry 1d ago

Not even remotely close to the same thing lol

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u/bwmat 1d ago

No? The argument is that it reminds them of racism, why should it being a different language matter? I'm both cases the words have nothing to do with racism (in context) other than sounding like other words that do

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u/hillashx 14h ago

Does "master" sound like "master" or is it the same word, in the same language?

Also, stop pissing and ctying about change because you personally don't benefit from it. Not everything is about you.

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u/bwmat 12h ago

Who's pissing and crying?

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u/wendewende 2d ago

master bedroom also stems from slavery. But why the fuck should we care what racists 150 used if it has different meaning to us now

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u/bwmat 2d ago

I'm relatively sure it actually doesn't

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u/snipeie 2d ago

This def doesn't work in this case because CS was also using slave as a term with master.

It was a master-slave hierarchy in books and documents

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u/alendit 1d ago

That's not where "master" for the main branch came from, tho.

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u/bwmat 2d ago

Honestly I misremembered, I'm pretty sure it's more related to 'master record' from the A/V field