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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 DannyB on Friday May 04 2018, @05:49PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 04 2018, @05:49PM (#675763) Journal

    Drat!

    Next time, I'll express my vile ideology in the choice of identifiers (variables, functions, methods, classes, etc).

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday May 04 2018, @10:28PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday May 04 2018, @10:28PM (#675889) Homepage Journal

    I've been using branch names.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 05 2018, @03:03AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 05 2018, @03:03AM (#675956)

    I used to do that.
    Use fat peoples names for reducing variables so I could say decrease Susan, skinny people for counters, Increase Betty, place names for labels. It was always fun to have a GOTO HELL somewhere in the code. Use that crazy chick in accounts name for the random number generator.

    Good times.

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Sunday May 06 2018, @12:45AM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Sunday May 06 2018, @12:45AM (#676208) Journal

      Exception up = new NullPointerException( "foobar cannot be null!" );
      throw up;

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