fnm VS asdf

Personally I like fnm. It’s nearly nvm api compatible, but (at least at the time) much faster. I don’t know if nvm still takes a noticeable time to switch, but fnm doesn’t.

You could use asdf, it uses nvm behind the scenes, which is pain slow. Instead I can recommend using https://github.com/Schniz/fnm. Just follow instructions.

How is Volta different from fnm?

* FNM: https://fnm.vercel.app/

I started with NVM, which is so slow that I'm confused (and maybe even impressed) as to how it's possible to be so slow.

Then I switched to FNM, which is delightfully not-slow.

Then I switched to Volta, because it supports installing standalone "tools" other than just Node, like Yarn and the various LSP servers that I use.

I tried N but don't use it. It seems to have a more "interactive" UI than FNM or Volta, so use N if you like that kind of thing.

I asked #node.js on libera, and they put me `fnm` [1], after being finally being fed up with how slow `nvm` was--haven't noticed any differences other than now things have been really fast.

[1] https://github.com/Schniz/fnm

Author here. A few other Rust projects to note that I didn't mention in the original post I've since found:

- Boa (JS engine in Rust) – https://github.com/boa-dev/boa

- RSLint (JS/TS linter in Rust) – https://github.com/rslint/rslint

- Node version manager in Rust – https://github.com/Schniz/fnm

If you know of any other popular ones, let me know. I'm keeping a list :)

There’s also fnm (https://github.com/Schniz/fnm)

Node.js - I recommend installing Node using either nvm or fnm

Well. Checkout https://asdf-vm.com. It can manage versions of a lot of things. It’s the tool I use.

sudo apt install ack aptitude atool autossh bc beets borgbackup bsdmainutils cloc curl dtrx ethtool exif exiv2 universal-ctags ffmpeg file firmware-linux-nonfree gddrescue gettext git gron htop httpie iftop iotop iproute2 jq libcurl4-openssl-dev libexiv2-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev lm-sensors mediainfo mesa-utils mpc multitail ncdu netcat nethogs nmap nodejs ntp ntpdate openssh-server p7zip-full parallel pass pbzip2 pigz procmail procps progress psmisc pv python3-pip ranger ripgrep rsync sc screen smartmontools speedometer sqlite3 sshfs strace sudo sysstat tcpdump tidy tig tmux tree unrar rar unzip vim vim-nox wget yamllint zip transmission-cli git clone https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf.git ~/.asdf --branch v0.9.0 #maybe keep it up to date through the times #use asdf install reasonably recent ruby (for work) and also nodejs, cargo and rust (because a ton of utils are available on their package managers) pip3 install beancount beets chardet fava httpie sncli sshuttle borgbackup visidata tldr howdoi socli spotdl yt-dlp gem install amatch chronic chronic_duration curb dimensions exiv2 faraday faraday_middleware fuzzy_match grip jmespath markdown-tables minitest nokogiri parallel popen4 pry pry-byebug rubyzip sqlite3 yaml zaru optimist npm -g install jsonfui js-beautify hget

I adhere to the philosophy of "system Python for system things, user-installed Python for my projects" and use asdf to manage Python versions.

git clone https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf.git ~/.asdf

If you are having trouble with nvm (as I did), I can highly recommend https://asdf-vm.com/

It's a self-compiled R 4.1.2 with shlibs enabled (compiled with asdf) with Rstudio 2021.09.1 build 372 installed from the official RPM.

When I got my M1 Mac, I tried to avoid the potential issues when using the version of Python installed by Homebrew by following these guidelines from Hacker Codex. (Using asdf to install Python and set the default version.)

For anything versioned, I use asdf: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

It's straightforward enough that the software devs I work with consider it "painless" to use.

asdf describes itself as "asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis. It is like gvm, nvm, rbenv & pyenv (and more) all in one!"

First google result: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf