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[–] Pyro@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I've never heard of daemons outside a programming context

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 1 points 59 minutes ago

I recently read it in a book. It was used for an evolved human form. That was my first time seeing it other than programming too

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They were divine beings above humans and below gods, they're probably the main inspiration for both angels and demons in Christianity

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Nope, daemon is just the Latin spelling. Sometimes we use it nowadays for fun to mean different things.

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago

In religious studies, daemon or daimon is used to refer to pre Christian supernatural beings as I said. There's a huge difference between beings that may or may not be evil vs demons who are generally regarded as evil by definition. Demons got their name from daimons, but they're not fully equivalent.

They were demons but with a funny æ

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

They appear in Warhammer a fair bit.