As a part of the Salesforce CLI unification, we bundled two executables: sfdx and sf. The sf executable will eventually provide a single set of commands designed to develop and deploy applications across all Salesforce clouds. Currently, it supports the Salesforce Platform and Salesforce Functions. Some of the sf commands are entirely interoperable with their sfdx equivalent.
For the sfdx commands that have their sf equivalent, we encourage you to try out sf commands in your developer workflow for two main reasons:
sf commands are user-friendly and optionally can be interactive. The interactive commands actively prompt you for required information rather than passively accepting flag values, thus reducing errors. Some of the sf commands are much more efficient and have enhanced features compared to their sfdx equivalent.
In this blog post, we will explore one such command, sf env create scratch (currently in Beta), which is used to
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