Apple is the latest to strip racist undertones from coding
Apple will no longer use terms like “master” and “slave” in its coding, products or APIs

Apple has become the latest technology firm to remove coding terms with racial undertones.
Recently, tech firms have been racing to nix all racist or non-inclusive terms from their software, apps and even code.
In an announcement, Apple said it’ll work “to remove and replace non-inclusive language across our developer ecosystem, including within Xcode, platform APIs, documentation, and open source projects.” This process began on June 22, as all the beta software and developer documentation at WWDC20 lacked any of these terms.
Instead of terms like “master” and “slave” or “whitelist” and “blacklist,” Apple will opt for more appropriate terms like “parent” and “child” or “allow-list” and “disallow-list.” These terms have been under scrutiny for some time, but the recent racial tensions in the U.S. have pushed companies to finally act on changing them.
Apple will deprecate all developer APIs that include this now-banned language as replacements roll out. You’ll soon start seeing these changes in internal codebases, public APIs and open-source projects, including WebKit and Swift.
There’s no mention of how long the changeover will take, so you may still see them in places where replacement software, APIs or apps are still in development.
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