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Volta – Fastest Node version manager in Rust
- MatthiasPortzel 3y agoI switched to Volta since nvm (the most popular node version manager) was adding upwards of 500ms to my shell startup. I’m sure nvm is a well engineered tool, but it’s design requirements are that it is a POSIX shell script that runs at shell start up so it’s not very fast. Volta takes a completely different approach by setting up shim symlinks, and so it’s much faster in the ways that I notice. Volta development isn’t the most active but the maintainers have been working on shipping version bumps.
- NayamAmarshe 3y agoYes, exactly! I wonder why people use NVM when Volta exists.
- selbyk 3y agoOr if you need to manage more than just node, asdf has been around for over a decade and works great. You can use a .tool-versions to change runtimes for each project you have, in addition to managing your global runtime versions https://asdf-vm.com/ https://asdf-vm.com/