what’s the difference between a bug and a glitch since they seemed to be used interchangeably?
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The terms are generally interchangeable for most people. For tech support, engineering, and development normally a bug is a reproduce-able (coding issue, hardware deficiency, etc) issue while a glitch is a one off incident
Glitches can be completely random issues that never happen again, or can be an indication of a potential bug but are not usually repetitive thus not able to be diagnosed nor reproduce-able. A bog will normally be a repetitive/common occurrence and/ore easily reproduced and diagnosed, thus eventually be address or repaired
My view –
A bug is an error, typically in programming, that causes an issue of some kind. This could be a conflict with another piece or coding or an unexpected outcome, or any number or other things.
A glitch is an unexpected and sudden malfunction.
A bug could cause a glitch.
I think a bug is generally a coding error or something introduced (knowingly or not). A bug results in a consistent outcome. A glitch is an abberation. It may not repeat.
In short, the bug is the cause, the glitch is the result. A bug is an unintended behavior in a particular part of a system. A glitch is the result of that unintended behavior. Take video games for example. A bug might be, say, something the developers did not intend to happen. The term “glitch” might be used to refer to both the particular thing going on in the game’s code to make it happen *and* the result of that.
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