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Whats the Difference Between an App (bundle) and a Binary
A binary is the linked product of all your source code. Itβs executable. You can run commands against it. An app, is merely a wrapper/directory, which includes that binary and other things. How do you create a binary? First itβs important to understand what a binary is. Youβve used them every day in the terminal. Examples: ls, cp, mkdir. You pass certain parameters to them. They donβt have any file extension....