C# objects are boxed too.

Boxing is taking a Value Type (struct, int, enum, etc) and converting it to an Object. So Objects aren’t boxed.

Apparently we have different definitions of boxing. To me, and I've always used it (and seen it used) like this, a boxed value is a value that's stored on the heap and passed as a pointer. Maybe C# has a different definition?

No, from the C# docs[1] - Boxing is the process of converting a value type to the type object or to any interface type implemented by this value type

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g...

Right, so then in C# a boxed value is an object as far as I can tell.

That’s correct, but not what you said. You said objects are boxed. Values are boxed to create a reference by wrapping it in an object, objects are already reference types so there’s no boxing.

I'm not extremely familiar with C# objects, but I think I get the confusion now. My point was that objects are boxed values, and that most things in C# are (to my knowledge) objects. I guess I used slightly the wrong words.