This is from a commit he did over a year ago: https://github.com/alex/libuv/commit/3977d1b36c689767cc0db50089ec774143795341#diff-6a16903c26af4b4035eda9922a73ec

This is from a commit he did over a year ago: https://github.com/alex/libuv/commit/3977d1b36c689767cc0db50089ec774143795341#diff-6a16903c26af4b4035eda9922a73ecc9 https://github.com/alex/libuv/commit/3977d1b36c689767cc0db50... Had nothing to do with using a masculine pronoun, it was to document how the code works. Hes not a native english speaker either, so you should be glad that he wrote the comment in english for us that don't speak dutch :)