Because I don't want to be forced to adapt by others. Let me adapt by myself. Adding an option for change is fine, but changing the default is fucking annoying. Fuck Github for changing master.
Because I don’t want to be forced to adapt by others.
We are all forced all the time to follow social norms. Short of moving to a cabin in the woods, this is inescapable, for better or worse. In this master/main debate it seems like we can make some people happy with minimal cost. In the end it is a tiny irrelevance, when compared to other norms being changed.
If you were starting out a term like PeripheralInControllerOut would make far more sense than MasterInSlaveOut.
A lot of industry-specific terms exist because someone didn't think a lot about naming 80 years ago and picked the first thing that came to mind. Turns out most offensive terms are also not intuitive to newcomers.