No, it's one system to have in your shell rc - that does the work of nvm, pyenv, rbenv etc. Main benefit is you no longer need N half-baked utilities fighting

No, it's one system to have in your shell rc - that does the work of nvm, pyenv, rbenv etc. Main benefit is you no longer need N half-baked utilities fighting over your path and shell completions, just asdf. And plug-ins mostly re-use other tools, so it's both simple to set up and mostly avoids duplicating effort.