On July 13th, we asked the community for your opinion if you would like to change the name of this community.
Results of the Survey :
Yes - 28.1%
No - 71.9% (winner)
Of the 1,201 responses received, we as a community have democratically decided that we should not change the name from PC Master Race. I am grateful to our community for your input, as this was a difficult topic to navigate together.
We'll pin this post for some time and then consider adding a bullet into the sidebar for this Community to help stave off further discussions around this topic as the community has already decided collectively.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but as someone who just started programming like 2 years ago, main makes more sense and is a more approachable name to me than master
While convention is not about making sense (does Java class names make any sense?), master makes more sense in this case because main implies that there are secondary that's not related to it. Which really shouldn't happen in any sane repo.
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This may be an unpopular opinion, but as someone who just started programming like 2 years ago, main makes more sense and is a more approachable name to me than master
While convention is not about making sense (does Java class names make any sense?),
master
makes more sense in this case becausemain
implies that there aresecondary
that's not related to it. Which really shouldn't happen in any sane repo.Tbf, 'master' can imply the same thing
Master implies hierarchy, all the other branches are derivatives of it. Main/secondary doesn't have that.
You can sort of compare it to the master recording in audio, or a master key that can open several locks.