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[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is really, "what techs call it" and "what non-techs call it".

As a tech, I usually know what someone means when they "app".

It's "glitch" that drives me mad though. Glitch sounds like a ghost caused the error one tine only, versus some lazy coder.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair i would consider a glitch to be closer to a ghost causing it than a lazy developer.

I consider a "bug" to be something caused by the code (bad error handling, bad logic, etc) and a "glitch" to be something more random or environmental

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

Yes! Agreed. But for some reason, the only word everyone uses these days is "glitch". And I don't know why, but that really fries my grits.