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application vs program
| Here's my opinion:
A program is the executable file, while an application could be a whole suite of programs.
| >>373811 yet what we call apps are actually just programs. People will fuck over terminology on any chance they'll get
| >>373921
Apps is a marketing term anyways. I strongly discourage its use outside of literal Android/iOS App Store Downloads.
| >>373973
Well, it contradicts saying that you agree on discouraging improper usage of a word if you still use it for "easiness".
"app" sounds like a pop-choc-donut-kinda-word for dumbasses. Who wants to sound like that?
| >>374041 languages evolve a e words change meaning that's natural. no one outside of few stuck up nerds use word"program" anymore. Apps is what dominates not only current windows but also Linux distributions.
| >>374041 good point, I was agreeing with that's where it should be used and not in other contexts, but just because I agree doesn't mean I'm not going to do it :p
To be fair most of the time I refer to a program or app by it's name and don't have much cause to say app in the first place
| I generally think if it comes from a "store" it's an app if it's something you download it's a program and if it comes from a package manager it's a package
| >>374261
He refers to the package manager caconical offers with ubuntu, that looks like the apple- or microsoft store. By default it only shows gui applications and no system stuff.
There is also "snap" and https://www.linux-apps.com/
I personally will keep calling programs programs. Everyone understands what it is. It's more important that people understand that there are gui and cli programs and that some programs are splitted in server and client components.
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| So what's the difference? I heard people using both terms and explaining that they are misused. I am still confused, I used to think applications are mobile OS equivalents of programs, then someone told me that's not it.