FWIW and a note to myself before I check it out a third time: I just checked it a second time and recall now what was turning me off: I found the installation

FWIW and a note to myself before I check it out a third time: I just checked it a second time and recall now what was turning me off: I found the installation of the node plugin and node super tedious and too much overhead[1], it's just once but yeah, didn't like the the UX (eg reshim), then asdf always forgot my current node version and finally, I was missing a quick ls command for checking out installed node versions and versions/lts-versions available remotely (nvm ls and ls-remote ) without having to checkout the node website or repo. I cannot speak for other languages but I found it for node rather a bigger step back and for stuff like Mongo—it's in their plugins!—I just use Docker, IDK but asdf feels just wrong for things like Mongo. I usually use node also from the node Docker image and have node versions only locally installed for stuff like coc-vim or when quickly needing the node REPL but anything serious runs in a container with a volume mapped to the project folder. So, I guess it's rather for languages that do not have a proper version manager and/or folks not into containerization. [1] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs