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The big question is: why do people still put a "Quit" MenuItem in their File menu ?

For many applications, especially on MacOS, closing a window and exiting the application are not the same operation.

In MacOS quit is not in the File menu. It is in the menu which is the name of the application, along with About, Preferences/Settings, Hide, Services.

The File menu has Close.

Pedantically, Quit was in the File menu in classic Mac OS. The application menu is was added in Mac OS X.

Ah I came to macOS from NeXT so I have always seen it that way.

At this point, putting it anywhere else would make people even more confused.

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