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As well as being more inclusive — which I personally think should be enough reason to make the switch — denylist/allowlist is just plain easier to understand!
I think when folks are entrenched in tech, they forget that the words blacklist/whitelist aren't actually regularly used by many people.
For instance, I was just explaining this debate to my wife and she wondered Wait a minute, what's a whitelist? ... when I said, "Oh that's an allowlist." it instantly became clear to her.
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We're a place where coders share, stay up-to-date and grow their careers.
Let's abolish these terms to start with -
blacklist / whitelist 👉 denylist / allowlist
master / slave 👉 primary / replica
master/slave -> Puppeteer/Puppet
master/slave -> Gepeto/Pinochio
primary/replica mostly only applies for databases though, whereas master/slave is waaaay more broad than that.
Secondary generally works in most of the cases where replica doesn't apply
Absolutely. primary / secondary it is then
As well as being more inclusive — which I personally think should be enough reason to make the switch — denylist/allowlist is just plain easier to understand!
I think when folks are entrenched in tech, they forget that the words blacklist/whitelist aren't actually regularly used by many people.
For instance, I was just explaining this debate to my wife and she wondered Wait a minute, what's a whitelist? ... when I said, "Oh that's an allowlist." it instantly became clear to her.