Clarity needed on various terms Application, libraries, framework, tool

You are pretty close so I think all replies will be pedantic differences.

I like to think of applications as libraries + state. This isn’t a rigorous definition, but I find the mental model helpful.

I had a question about why app.src is included in Erlang libraries and got insightful responses. So basically libraries are applications without processes being started.

Framework isn’t an erlang specific term, and I believe that common test is using it in the same way other ecosystem’s might.

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