Is “while (true)” usually used for a permanent thread?

Question

I\'m relatively new to coding; most of my \"work\" has been just simple GUI apps that only function for one thing, so I haven\'t had to thread much.

Anyway, one thing I\

Answer 1

Yep, that's what you do.

But typically it's like:

bool keepRunning = true;

...

while(keepRunning){
}

Because sometimes you may like to have someone/something else to have the ability to stop you.