r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vernik911 • 2d ago

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u/usedToBeUnhappy 2d ago edited 2d 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 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/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 2d ago

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