eget VS woof

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would be good if you added a comparison with https://github.com/zyedidia/eget on your repo

There used to be a project called ginstall.sh that kept like, a manually maintained database of various projects with static binaries and how to install them. It still exists, but maintenance stopped because its model was also not sustainable. Its use case is better covered by tools like asdf, stew, and if you want to get even simpler, eget.

I'm a huge fan of asdf and have been using for years together with direnv! It's great to see how much effort is put into it! I hope more people adopt it so that we don't have to `curl | sh`! One thing I have issues with asdf is security as are no checksums, so, you if I project get compromised you'll get compromised, too. This, of course, is in addition to the third-party asdf plugin getting itself compromised (which is the greater risk). Last, but not least - I wish asdf came with something like eget [0] incorporated so that it can install 99% of the plugins directly and safely! Last, but not least - 99% of the plugins have almost identical code and all that changes is the repo, so, this should be generalized. For example, many years ago I made just one codebase of all HashiCorp plugins [1] and it's been working great!

[0]: https://github.com/zyedidia/eget

[1]: https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp

- There are too many separate plugins to use and download. Too much code duplication between plugins

I hope this doesn't sound like a laundry list of gripes, but just things to improve upon (for the maintainer). I understand how hard it is to write Bash that works everywhere. Personally, I've opted to build my own (partial) solution that implements these suggestions at https://github.com/hyperupcall/woof, but my hope is that asdf will become substantially better over the years