Because 1) it's seen as juvenile at best and 2) seen as off-putting towards non-bro people (specifically, women) who aren't in the "in-group". It has nothing to do with insulting frats, just that particular language which is "frat-ish".

Does this matter in personal open-source projects? Not really, forking is a thing. When working with others / at a job, sure.

I don't think there's an "in-group" of frat-bro programmers who actually talk like this in real life. Everyone I've met has just been doing it as a joke. At least, this seems very common in the Ruby/Rails community. There's a whole ton of weird gem names, and people just being silly in general [1]. And it's not a recent [2] thing [3], by any means.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbda1PpQmAk

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_...

(P.S. TIL about `$ fortune | cowsay -f head-in`. Hahaha I hadn't seen that before.)

I don't think it's an IRL issue really either. Recently there was that uber article. But in general I don't really see it or it's usually exaggerated.

People have been making jokes since the beginning of time.

> seen as off-putting towards non-bro people (specifically, women) who aren't in the "in-group"

Have you talked to anyone in a sorority? Its a fraternity for females and they share the same speech quirks.

>. It has nothing to do with insulting frats, just that particular language which is "frat-ish".

That's nice, do you also take offense to things like ebonics because they seem "black-ish"?

I think you're being unintentionally insensitive because you're blind to your own prejudice

I don't disagree with you, I'm just stating why people make those statements. I would go even further than just frats/sorities, that type language isn't uncommon with college aged people.

I'm not sure what you mean by your last statement. All I was saying is that I'm not trying to insult frats, it's just this language is associated with frats and its how people describe it. I don't think there's anything wrong with it, different groups will always have dialectical quirks like that.

Sure, put whatever you want in your README's. I don't care if that's the impression you want your projects to have. You're not offending me, I just have to hold my nose when someone feels the need to do the brogrammer speak thing.

It's in the same category as reddit's "the narwahl bacons at midnight" crap that was all over that site years ago to me. I just find it nauseating.