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Does this mean that they can be used in any platform regardless on whether they are officially supported by the design language's creators?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yep, they're not languages anyways. Whatever it technically is, whomever decided to call it a language has got their head up their butt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Design guidelines?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"Design language" is, without a doubt, a thing. It's a metaphor, and a pretty apt one. Curious to hear what you think of programming languages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Possibly. But what google and apple made are not that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

In my understanding, a language is a way to encode information to be decoded elsewhere. Those can be English words or computer instructions.