I 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, b

I 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.