Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
by pjmlp on Saturday September 11, 2021 @05:17AM
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That is one possible interpretation of the term, yes Microsoft does use native/managed to distinguish between environments with GC runtime and those without.
Which isn't what users talk about when arguing about native apps, they don't even know what a GC is.
Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
by dataflow on Saturday September 11, 2021 @05:21AM
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> Which isn't what users talk about when arguing about native apps, they don't even know what a GC is.
Because I'm sure if you went and asked the vast majority of "users" what a "native app" is, you'd get a coherent answer instead of a blank stare.
Let's lay this matter to rest. You don't like the definition, I get it. It's fine.
But see for example https://stackoverflow.com/a/855774
If you still don't like the terminology though, I'm not going to keep arguing. I didn't coin the term. You should go ask Microsoft why they didn't call C# native when NGen was already there. I'm just saying that terminology is already established and you're confusing people by using it differently.