Apple: Updates to Coding Terminology(developer.apple.com)

13 pointsby xfr6 anni fa10 comments

developer.apple.com

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1o9zxsxl

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mike_d6 anni fa

Here are the actual (inclusive language) changes from the style guide:

   Asia Pacific (n., adj.) - Don’t list Japan separately; Asia Pacific includes Japan.
   Black (adj.) - Capitalize when referring to ethnicity or cultural identity.
   blacklist/whitelist (n., v.) - Don’t use. Instead, use an alternative that’s appropriate to the context, ...
   logic board - Not motherboard, mother board, main board, or main circuit board. ...
   master/slave - Don’t use to describe the relationship between two devices or processes. ...
   slave - Don’t use to refer to a device or process. See also master/slave.
   whitelist - Don’t use. See also blacklist/whitelist (n., v.).

throwaway19976 anni fa

So "main" is also problematic now? I thought that was the replacement for git's master branch?

kasperni6 anni fa

The style guide contains other updates then just "non-inclusive language" [1]. I think the original comment mistakenly included logic board (Apple uses the term logic board instead of mother board/main board).

[1] https://help.apple.com/applestyleguide/#/apdaf2bc3367

hunter2_6 anni fa

If you're referring to the mandate to say "logic board," I believe that is just a stylistic choice, not a cancellation of "main" in the sense you're thinking of.

soganess6 anni fa

Hah, I see where you're coming from. If your SOC has CPU, GPU, PCIe routing, and networking all packaged up, then the "main" board isn't doing anything all that main anymore. Unexpected sign of the times.

hunter2_6 anni fa

The deprecation of master/slave is something that crossed my mind some 20 years ago when I was setting jumpers on a IDE optical drive. What shall we substitute slave with, though, given that master is now main? Apache httpd has long used "worker"...

How about black hat (noun or proper noun) and white hat? They're identically problematic as blacklist/whitelist -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-and-white_dualism

pfranz6 anni fa

I've seen "worker", "main", "parent/child", and "primary/replica" used as a replacement depending on the context.

choko6 anni fa

I've heard complains from some in various tech industries that parent/child is non-inclusive. I'm not saying I think it should be changed, but doesn't the logic of the people advocating these changes demand that all terms be as inclusive as possible?

hunter2_6 anni fa

For that matter, "worker" implies something along the lines of "working class" or "unskilled laborer" which isn't all that friendly of a metaphor either. Kind of tough to think of a way to express "doesn't think for onesself, just takes orders" without being mean.

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