I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I'm not sure I follow. You'll almost never want to use hard links where you could use soft links, because you lose canonicalisiosity (I just made that word up) and you end up never being 100% sure you've deleted a file or not. Things also break if you do an operation which effectively replaces a file.
Is there a benefit to using hard links here that I'm not seeing?
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I'm not sure I follow. You'll almost never want to use hard links where you could use soft links, because you lose canonicalisiosity (I just made that word up) and you end up never being 100% sure you've deleted a file or not. Things also break if you do an operation which effectively replaces a file.
Is there a benefit to using hard links here that I'm not seeing?