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    5 months ago

    It’s relevant because there are still platforms that don’t have actual Bash (e.g. containers using Busybox).

    sh is not just a symlink: when invoked using the symlink, the target binary must run in POSIX compliant mode. So it’s effectively a sub-dialect.

    Amber compiles to a language, not to a binary. So “why doesn’t it compile to sh” is a perfectly reasonable question, and refers to the POSIX shell dialect, not to the /bin/sh symlink itself.