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The Anatomy of a macOS App

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278 points elashri | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pjmlp ◴[07 Dec 25 16:11 UTC] No.46182736[source]▶
As side note, NeXTSTEP bundle system was the inspiration for Java's JAR files.
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dana321 ◴[07 Dec 25 16:49 UTC] No.46183045[source]▶
jars are just zip files renamed
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favorited ◴[07 Dec 25 21:44 UTC] No.46185482[source]▶
Wait until you learn what an iOS app's .ipa file is.
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1. wpm ◴[08 Dec 25 07:21 UTC] No.46189374[source]▶
What’s that saying, there are 3 kinds of files?

zips, text files, and binary files