• applemao@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I hate the term. It waters down true programmers and hard work. 9 year old rips off someone and makes game, “app”. Actual software dev makes useful program using hard work and their own assets, “app”.

    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I don’t think there’s a clear definition of either. I’d say if it has no UI, it’s a program. And if it has a UI, I don’t know if it’s a program or an app.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 days ago

      The original Macintosh had an Applications folder. App is what I use to cut through tech speak for people at work because the shortcut is less daunting. They have apps on their phone. They must not be scary like Programs and Applications.

    • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      Historically, an app is something with very limited uses, and a program is more powerful.

      Adobe PhotoShop is a program. Apple Photos is an app.

      • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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        2 days ago

        I’d say it gets a little different with command line utilities — maybe “utility” is the appropriate term here, but I’d call something like grep a program, not an application (again — “utility” also works).

        To be sure, grep is extremely powerful, but its scope is limited.

  • irelephant [he/him]@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    The meme is good and all, but seeing it makes me feel irrationally annoyed because the first place I saw it was a rascist pleroma (fediverse software; mastodon but rasict) instance that had it embedded in the frontend. This just reminds me of it.

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s worse if you have ever worked in food service. “App” is short for “appetizer”.

    ::cries in very specific form of confusion::

  • MTK@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I powered on my computer, my app started, which started my main app, which started my essential apps, which started my app that I use to open my other app, which I use to go to my other app that I use to watch other apps being used by otgher people.

    You will get an invisible candy if you can correctly decode this.

    • marzhall@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I’ll bite: I powered on my computer. My bios started which started my init process, which started my daemons, which started my login manager (maybe slim), which started my DE (maybe gnome), which I use to go to my browser in order to watch other people stream video games.

      I’m dicey on what the browser is being used for - maybe security software? - but I feel like it’s plausible.

  • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The word app has been around forever, first appearing in the 1970s (according to some dictionaries I just googled). Pendulum swung towards “programs” and we have since swung back to the correct term.

  • someacnt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The script is compiled to a program which is then executed by the OS.

    ->

    The app is appified to an app which is then apped by the app.

    Damnit.

  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    What I hate even more, is that the morons who can’t read more than two syllables decided to shorten “application” to “app”, but now I only ever hear people reading that as “ay pee pee”! What was the fucking point?

    • houseofleft@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 days ago

      This, 100% It’s like how people started saying “PC” because personal computer was too long for them, but now I exclusively hear people taking up to a minute on each letter! (peeeeeeee-seeeeeeee)

    • piranhaconda@mander.xyz
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      2 days ago

      I’ve literally never heard anyone call it A.P.P. (and I mean that literally literally, not figuratively literally)

      Is this a specific cultural thing? A generational thing? Geography based slang? Why would anyone do this.

    • adminofoz@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I mean, I’m pretty sure this is extremely widespread in China, so I’d say it’s more cultural than anything else. In fact, since there are so many Chinese, that probably means more people call it A.P.P. than app. But I honestly have no clue, and it doesn’t matter to me either way. Words change. It’s nothing to get bent out of shape about.

    • Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      Chinese phonology doesn’t allow for the pronunciation of “app”, for example. I see a lot of Chinese people spelling it as “APP”, and pronouncing it accordingly. It’s kinda funny to me, since the Mandarin word “yingyong” is only two syllables. “APP” just seems more cumbersome by all account, yet it has become inexplicably popular.

  • tisktisk@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I hate that this meme never explains what application meant ‘back then’
    I get that it’s a problem now, but if it had a clear enough definition back then, maybe this couldn’t have occurred the way it did?

    • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I always understood “application” like a gadget in the software world that just resolved one specific problem, and had that own definition till got distorted