Microsoft’s Github is removing coding terms like ‘master’ and ‘slave’
Github tweeted his support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
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In solidarity with the Black lives count Github, a Microsoft company that hosts software development hosting, is working on motion Remove coding terms such as “master” and “slave”. In programming, the term “master” can refer to a major version of a software project from which variations are created.
On Thursday, Nat Friedman, CEO of Github, responded to a tweet from Una Kravets, Director of Product Design at Bustle Digital Group, about the tech community taking steps to rename certain terms – especially those of the standard branch structure to change from “master”. to “main”.
“It’s a great idea and we’re already working on it,” Friedman tweeted.
CNET has asked Github for a comment and we will update it as soon as we hear.
Github’s Twitter page has posted that it stands with the black community and the fight against racism. In response, comments came in and asked the company to terminate its contract with the United States Immigration and Customs Service (ICE). The actions of the agency of Division of immigrant families on the US-Mexico border has been largely condemned by tech companies. In June 2018, almost 100 github encoders wrote a letter Microsoft said they would leave the company if the contract wasn’t dropped.
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Amid global protests in response to the deaths of black civilians like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade and others, technology companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft have expressed the need for racial justice. Technologists are also trying to revise other terms like “whitelist” and “blacklist”. It has also been proposed to replace “white hat” and “black hat” with “ethical” and “unethical”.
Black lives count. visit blacklivesmatters.carrd.co to learn how to donate, sign petitions, and protest safely.
