Nick Szabo  🔑

The term dapp on Ethereum should die Thread

1/ Smart contracts on Ethereum aren’t dapps, they’re functions, subprograms, routines Dapp implies a holistic user experience, a UI. It’s a carryover term we stole from Web/Mobile (We added a “d” to the word app—how clever!)

Smart contracts aren't "functions, subprograms, routines" either. They are contract-like, i.e. end-to-end apps typically with crucial off-chain components (UI, monitoring of obligation performance, data), as well as on-chain (trust-minimized conditional control of assets).

I agree, although it seems the concept of a function seems rather ambiguous in the computing sense given the FaaS movement. What about something like “contractual functionals”? This captures the notion of of contract as well as composability.