Difference between Joomla Platform, Joomla Application and Joomla CMS,

[Jonathan Seni]

Hello,

I am a php/python developer and for a while I've been using joomla to make simple website.

I want to dedicate my time more on developing applications based in Joomla portal and helping out the community on the General Development of Joomla as well. But I've stack with this terms and I really don't know what they mean.

Joomla Platform, Joomla Application, Joomla CMS, etc.

I would like someone to explain to me or give me a link to make followup and learn before diving in.

Thanks.

[alikon]

as officially staed:
The Joomla Platform is a platform for writing Web and command line
applications in PHP. It is free and open source software, distributed
under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. The Joomla
Content Management System (CMS) is built on top of the Joomla
Platform.

so is somthing like an api/framework to write web and cli
applications
the most famous example of a web application writed using the joomla
platform is the Joomla CMS

[Jonathan Seni]

So, If I want to learn on the development of extensions (Components, Modules, plugins, languages, etc) Should I learn both CMS and Platform?

[Michael Babker]

Since the CMS is based off the Platform (and includes the Platform's code, its the libraries/joomla folder), if you follow the code in the CMS, you'll learn everything you need.

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[Jonathan Seni]

Thanks for details.

[elin]

You need to know the platform to write extensions, you don't really need to know how to write extensions to write on  the platform. Sometimes I think it is a bit of a hindrance if you are used to doing extensions, because the platform doesn't require you to do all the things necessary to integrate with the CMS. 

Elin