dotfiles VS asdf-neovim

For starting several container with a shortcut you want layouts. You can dump a workspace into a json layout file (see https://i3wm.org/docs/layout-saving.html) which will get you a file that looks like https://github.com/cwebster2/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/i3/workspace-1.json . The important bit is the swallows key that defines what things each node will eat. You can then make a script that loads the layout into a workrspace and the apps you want, which will then populate the layout. I think this will get you the behavior you are looking for.

If you have the build dependencies installed, this script builds nightly. https://github.com/cwebster2/dotfiles/blob/main/bin/update-nvim.sh

There's an asdf plugin too: https://github.com/richin13/asdf-neovim

The big advantage of asdf is that you only have to learn one CLI and then you get a version manager for every plugin asdf supports (and there are a lot). asdf supports version files and asdf-neovim supports installing by git ref/nightly tag so I'm pretty sure everything you listed is already there for asdf users.

You don't need to do the "nightly" dance. It should all work with the latest version of NVIM. I'm using NVIM v0.7.2. I think Nightly is at 8.0. I installed NVIM with homebrew years ago, and I run `brew upgrade` every month or so to keep things up to date. But if I wanted to run Nightly I'd use ASDF to manage switching between versions effortlessly. https://github.com/richin13/asdf-neovim.

I haven't tried it for neovim, but I use asdf for managing versions of node and python, and there's a neovim plugin available

Why not use asdf-neovim?