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I've been using asdf for awhile because it's was good and much easier than having a language version manager for every language I was using. Asdf was always pre
by davidjfelix 4y ago
I've been using asdf for awhile because it's was good and much easier than having a language version manager for every language I was using. Asdf was always pretty good, but I'd sometimes see slowness and starship (my prompt) would occasionally complain that the shims were taking too long.
As languages that I'm using are starting to adopt their own version manager (rust/go), I'm left using asdf pretty much exclusively for node and my eyes wander to some of the node-only tools like volta and fnm which use rust and I wondered if people were watching performance. Glad somebody is.
- tsuujin 4y agoI switched to asdf years ago for the exact opposite reason, I was tired of having a different tool for each language that I needed to maintain. It adds up, at one point I was using six different vm tools. Asdf really simplified my daily usage.
- davidjfelix 4y agoI mean -- that's the reason I switched to asdf, but my point is mostly that languages are building these tools into them so there's no split ecosystem, it doesn't require shell hacks and has much better ux than if it were provided externally like asdf is. I appreciate asdf for unifying all the shell hacks but rustup works way better than any other tool. As languages start to do this, asdf starts to become a mono-tasker for node for me.