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Creating an inclusive work environment is imperative to a healthy, supportive, and productive culture, and an environment where everyone feels welcome and included.
woke is a text file analysis tool that finds places within your source code that contain
non-inclusive language and suggests replacing them with more inclusive alternatives.
Companies like GitHub, Twitter, and Apple are actively supporting a move to inclusive language.
When I started writing
wokein August 2020, my goal was to build a tool that would shed light on non-inclusive language in source code and that would enable a long-term commitment to using inclusive language.
wokeis a reference to an awareness of social and political issues, especially racial prejudice and discrimination, and has a historic use within the African-American community. This tool aims to push this kind of awareness even further into the software development community.I named this project
wokebecause I saw it as a tool to awaken our code to non-inclusive language.You can read more about the origins and history of the word on Wikipedia.
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