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the lead dev has gone on the record that using singular they in the documentation is putting politics into his project, so i expect it to be possibly technically interesting (emphasis on possibly), but no effort put into accessibility and with a fucking horrendous dev community.
Oh God...
"Politics" as in left-wing sort or right-wing sort?
Either way, I just want something good, not really "political."
I feel like political crap when it comes to technology, left or right, tends to be inoperable or non-fuctional.
And I'm a communist.
From what I remember, the lead dev chose to use "he" or "him" in the code comments when referring to how a user would be using something. But then just kept closing requests to simply use a neutral term since a user isn't defaultly a male. Instead the dev justified keeping the term because changing it to "they" would somehow bring politics into it or something like that.
So he is choosing to just keep low level gender stereotypes about tech being something that guys do and use. Not sure of course if he is much more sexist beyond that, or if he is just picking a weird hill to die on due to maybe feeling "attacked" and therefore leaning into it. There might be other examples that I haven't seen aside from the situation above.
Oh, yeah, that's pretty sus and, aside from that, I don't like it at all.
Seems like a libertarian type or one of those Gen Xers that are basically just boomers.