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Re:Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environ... by fredrikaverpil on Sunday April 28, 2024 @02:52AM (#40186583)
I’m liking pkgx over asdf as it can activate project tooling upon cd’ing into a project folder.

https://pkgx.sh

Re:Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environ... by jdsalaro on Sunday April 28, 2024 @03:06AM (#40186638)
it certainly looks interesting! I'm still not sure if "It’s npx for everything else" is good marketing :P

> can activate project tooling upon cd’ing into a project folder

this probably can be replicated with zsh hooks: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Functions.html#Hook-F...

Re:Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environ... by johnathon023 on Sunday April 28, 2024 @03:26AM (#40186734)
Mise gives you basically the same capabilities but is scoped a bit better, I’d check it out.
Re:Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environ... by drewbitt on Sunday April 28, 2024 @04:16AM (#40186957)
Is it? On top of an asdf and direnv replacement, mise is also a task runner, an environment variable manager, has experimental backends for npm/rust/go/python etc to take over their global package installs, replaces core asdf plugins with rewrites they have to maintain, and more. If anything it actually fails to scope itself

(Note: I like the tool)

Re:Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environ... by alanwreath on Monday April 29, 2024 @01:01PM (#40201016)
wait wuuut? I don't get it, I do this with asdf using the `.tool-versions` file. What's the difference/improvement?