I don’t know (but wanna learn) programming, but, for example, can’t you inspect the code of an app if it’s installed?

(yeah this is kind of a stupid question.)

EDIT: Thanks for the clarification, guys!

    • donuts@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Some programs are distributed as “scripts” (in a scripting language like BASIC, BASH, Python, JavaScript, Lua, etc) which are stored on your computer in human-readable form and only converted into CPU machine code when you run the program, through an “interpreter” program.

      Of course, everything boils down to binary machine code in the end, because those CPU instructions are the only language that your CPU actually works with.