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by airstrike 882 days ago
> Is it aiming to be POSIX-compliant/compatible with Bourne shell?

No? It never claimed to be aiming to be POSIX-compliant. It seems like it's just making it easier to write "scripts", or do the equivalent of writing a script, in JS.

And if you're NOT using this, then you're also not guaranteed to have a POSIX-compliant shell since you may be on Windows, for example
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jchw 882 days ago
To be honest, it absolutely should aim to be at least a strictly compatible subset of POSIX, even if it doesn't implement everything. There is really no good reason to XKCD 927 this on purpose, but the mentality regarding this is not written anywhere that I saw. I think the mentality regarding compatibility ought to be documented in more detail. What is considered a "bug"?
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avgcorrection 882 days ago
Silence is equivalent to a “no” (posix comp.). That’s documentation enough.
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