I've been using mise as a pure version manager for a pretty long time, and I had no idea you could use it for general tools like this.
I really prefer to lock the version numbers instead:
mise use -g somepackage --pin
mise up -il
What were your criticisms, and what changed?
Mise now has lockfiles as a stable feature, which has the benefit of hash checking if you use Mise in a CI environment!
How does this even work? How does mise know how to install these things?
Re:Homebrew 6.0.0
by c-hendricks on Thursday June 11, 2026 @10:28PM
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Mise has many backends. A lot comes from Aqua / asdf, but there's others like GitHub, npm, cargo, http, etc.
It's all fairly well documented here: https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/backends/
Projects then have their own dependencies, e.g. https://github.com/i-am-bee/agentstack/blob/main/mise.toml
Mise also has a task runner which automatically uses correct tools. Onboarding a new team member is super easy now, they just need Mise, "mise install" and they're up.