Apple is working to eliminate non-inclusive or discriminatory language from its operating systems and applications, as an evolution of an initiative taken at the Worldwide Developers Conference held in June this year.
Apple announced the change in an update to its developer portal, stating that the terminology of the code will be changed to remove or replace words that could be perceived as racist in Xcode, the platform's API and open source projects.
The changes will be evident in the released betas of iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS Big Sur, watchOS 7 and tvOS 14, and in the accompanying documents.
Instead of references to "blacklist", "whitelist", "master branch", "master / slave" and other potentially insensitive terminology, Apple will implement a more neutral language such as "allow list", "deny list" (reject list) "Main ”Will replace“ master ”in the default SCM branch in Xcode 12. The term“ Black ”will be capitalized when referring to people's color.
Apple urges developers to study API changes and incorporate the new language into their projects.
“The exclusive development APIs for articles will be dropped as we introduce replacements for internal code bases, public APIs, and open source projects like WebKit and Swift,” says Apple. "We encourage all developers to closely monitor abandonment alerts and proactively incorporate the latest APIs available into the platform's SDKs."
Terminology and other relevant changes have been added to the Apple Style Guide.
What do you think? Do shapes matter? Is this another example of political correctness in something that has nothing to do with it?
