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From the man pages:
ln - make links between files
and
link - call the link function to create a link to a file
These seem to do the same thing however ln takes a lot of options as well.
Is link just a very basic ln? Is there any reason to use link over ln?
link used solely for hard links, calls the link() system function and doesn't perform error checking when attempting to create the link
ln has error checking and can create hard and soft links
The link command creates a hard link to a file.
According to the manual page, it is the same as:
$ ln --directory --no-target-directory FILENAME LINKNAME
See man link or info coreutils 'link invocation' for more details.
