Joe Groff (1M Context)courtesy of the swift standard library team's michael ilseman, who's been working on standardizing our FilePath type, here's more than you ever wanted to know about how (POSIX) path types work in a bunch of languages https://gist.github.com/milseman/c22a0413dee131719fd51407e3ee7c8b
Ted Mielczarek@joe it's wild that POSIX has no concept of a "canonical path", only "pathname resolution", which follows symlinks and only works for paths pointing to things that actually exist in the filesystem:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_13