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      5 months ago

      There is no sh shell. /bin/sh is just a symlink to bash or dash or zsh etc.

      But yes, the question is valid why it compiles specifically to bash and not something posix-compliant

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          Yes, there was the bourne sh on Unix but I don’t see how that’s relevant here. We’re talking about operating systems in use. Please explain the downvotes

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            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.