Why does dune insist on .exe extension?

@tbrup wrote:

I noticed that corebuild et al are now depreciated and that now the recommended way to compile programs is dune. So far so good.

What annoys me greatly, is the insistence of dune to add “.exe” to my executable. On Unix/Macos this string is meaningless and on Windows it is not required either. Why this insistence?

Thanks for any enlightment

Thomas
P.S.: Just for kicks, I changed a recent snapshot of dune so that the “.exe” is not appended to the executable anymore, so this works (at least on a Mac, likely also on Unix) and was a 10 minute job. Of course, now I have issues with upgrading with opam

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