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...
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.
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.
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.