An insight I had recently while thinking about language, is that the terms commonly used by the developer community can have some unintended and far-reaching co

An insight I had recently while thinking about language, is that the terms commonly used by the developer community can have some unintended and far-reaching consequences. Take the term user-friendly; which is insidious term in that it labels everything which isn't in that bucket as user hostile. That we now co-opt the term to mean any software which is easy to use for certain users, means that we, as developers steer away from creating software not in that particular bucket. We do a disservice to people to hide these tools away; software should enable users, not dictate what they do. I love this particular example of a Professor in French studies extending Emacs to do medieval transcription [1]. [1] https://josephrjohnson.georgetown.domains/posts/emacs-transcriptions/ https://josephrjohnson.georgetown.domains/posts/emacs-transc...