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LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance

posted by martyb on Friday May 04 2018, @08:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the Nice-Big-CoC dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Rafael Avila de Espindola, one of the top contributors to the LLVM compiler toolset, has cut ties with the open source project over what he perceives as code of conduct hypocrisy and support for ethnic favoritism. In a message posted to the LLVM mailing list, de Espindola said he was leaving immediately and cited changes in the community.

LLVM project founder, Chris Lattner responded; "I applaud Rafael for standing by his personal principles, this must have been a hard decision." Lattner also insisted that "it is critical to the long term health of the project that we preserve an inclusive community."

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 04 2018, @05:11PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 04 2018, @05:11PM (#675740) Journal

    He very specifically objected to the elevation of women, gays, trans, and any and everything else above real males. I cited the upskirt project above. They were a deplorable collection of sexists. Here, we have a different kind of sexists, targeting males - and you seem to miss that they are deplorable.

    Different strokes for different folks, and all - but the project is no less sexist than upskirt was.

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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday May 05 2018, @06:54AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Saturday May 05 2018, @06:54AM (#675995)

    The code you linked above looks like it has been cleaned up from anything naughty which might have once been in it. But who cares anyway? It is an open source project, the people doing it were enjoying themselves and everyone else got free use of the work. Maybe they were trapped in a SJW hellhole workplace and this was how they blew off steam after hours. Shoulda used nom-de-plumes for that sort of thing of course, lots of potential for even more antics. Even more hilarity had they included a script to flip all the variables between naughty and nice like there used to be for the old SATAN vuln scanner which could be built as SANTA with a switch when some usual suspects complained.