Linux, Twitter look remove ‘blacklist/whitelist’ from code
Coding terms like ‘master’, ‘slave’, ‘blacklist’, and ‘whitelist’ could soon be a thing of the past as the likes of Linux, Twitter, Git, and IBM’s Red Hat begin purging non-inclusive phrases from their code.
Twitter Engineering announced last week that it wanted to “move away from” certain phrases that the social media company said was not reflective of its values.
“There is no switch we can flip to make these changes everywhere, at once,” the company said.
“We will continue to iterate on this work and want to put in place processes and systems that will allow us to apply these changes at scale.”
Along with terms like ‘blacklist’ and ‘whitelist’, Twitter said it wants to move away from gendered pronouns and even ‘dummy value’.
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