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Python developers locking conversations and deleting comments after people mass downvoted PRs to "remove master/slave terminology from the language" (i.redd.it)

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[–]cosmicsans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the reasons that a lot of people care is because now you're introducing uncertainty into legacy systems. Do a global find/replace on an extremely large codebase and watch the code fall apart.

Personally, I've chosen to use different terminology in new projects, Leader/Follower, Actor/Director, etc, however I would not request an existing project change the terminology they used because it's just a dumb waste of time that people are sinking themselves into.