Microsoft's Github is removing coding terms like 'master' and 'slave'
Posted on AllSides June 16th, 2020
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In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, Github, a Microsoft-owned company that provides hosting for software development, is working on removing coding terms like "master" and "slave." In programming, the term "master" can refer to a main version of a software project from which variations are created.
On Thursday, Github CEO Nat Friedman replied to a tweet from Una Kravets, director of product design at Bustle Digital Group, about the tech community taking steps to rename certain terms -- particularly, to switch that of the default branch structure from...
