Hey, please make your substantive points thoughtfully and drop the name-calling and flamebait. You owe the community better if you're posting here—plus it's in your interest not to discredit your own position that way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> People need to grow the fuck up and stop getting so butt hurt over stupid little words

And yet here you are, emotionally reacting to the words people choose to use!

OK, you don’t see the offence. Fair enough. Are you the descendent of a slave? Have you spoken to others who are to gauge their thoughts? I’m not personally offended by it either but I’m willing to believe others are. And what the hell difference does it actually make to me if I’m merging to “main” instead of “master”? It’s fewer characters for one, and probably easier to explain to beginners.

What I saw in the V8 post was a simple, straightforward statement about a small change they made. And then I saw your comment.

> stop being a little bitch cry baby

Quite.

> What I saw in the V8 post was a simple, straightforward statement about a small change they made.

I also saw this:

> The team joined a Chromium-wide effort to follow Google’s commitments to racial equity by replacing some insensitive terms in the project.

So this affects the entire Chromium code base. Not just V8.

As for their 'diversity progress' according to their 2020 report, it has made quite frankly, little to close to no change as a whole. [0]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ruthumoh/2020/05/05/google-dive...

The word choice is meant to be ironic, but anyway.

What a waste of developer time to be renaming code symbols because they offend somebody. You don't have a right not to be offended.

> You don't have a right not to be offended.

A right? No. But you also don’t have a right to offend coworkers. I guess some companies consider not being offended to be a perk of employment with them. The free market can decide: if people value the perk they’ll work there. If they don’t, they’ll quit.

> There are real problems out there in the world, go find one and do something about it and stop being a little bitch cry baby.

it's all about posturing and signaling, and being a crook.

yes, there are real problems that stem from corporations and society's heavy efforts to divide and capitalize on us. however, it's far more difficult and low-roi to actually fight racism or do anything productive, whereas you get most of the benefits by acting like you care and banning a couple words and saying it's bad!

I agree, it seems to be all about virtue signaling as opposed to trying to do anything actually transformative.

Exactly. It is virtue signalling at its finest and it does absolutely nothing to address the actual concern or create anything substantiative.

> The v8.6 version makes the V8 code base more respectful. The team joined a Chromium-wide effort to follow Google’s commitments to racial equity by replacing some insensitive terms in the project.

The 'decisions' of the Chromium team never cease to be so illogical. If they complain about upstreaming another OS like the BSDs (Because they're a minority of users and its vewy vewy 'hard' to maintain) [0] but happily rename words in the entire Chromium codebase to appeal to a minority of actually 'offended' people of the sake of so-called 'inclusivity', then I'm afraid they have just defied any sense of logic and reason.

This is the hill they want to die on.

> This is still an ongoing effort and any external contributor is welcome to give a hand! You can see the list of still available tasks here.

An ongoing senseless wasted effort.

[0] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-dev/...