Functional PHP VS asdf

A lot of this can be handled in userland. For examples libraries such as https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php/blob/main/docs/functional-php.md handle a lot of this.

I’m also trying to use all of these at least once or twice to have these tools under my belt should I want them https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php

https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php

The no-brainers to me are the missing array_some()/array_any() array_every()/array_all() and an array_search() that takes a predicate an iterable. I do these now in userland but an optimized native version would be nice.

Functional PHP, which provides a lot of similar functionality, also uses pluck and has for many years https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php

While looking at functional-php, I saw a pretty neat way of doing composition with an array_reduce method, and wanted to recreate it in JavaScript. There are plenty of libraries that implement this (and do so more effectively), but it's pretty fun knowing that you can get this functionality with a couple lines of plain JavaScript.

I like to use "runtime version managers", like mise (I use and recommend) or asdf to install interpreters and compilers in different versions. I suggest you to do the same to install a proper Ruby version.

asdf or compatible .tool-versions file

In this article, we will use a version manager called asdf‑vm, or simply asdf.

This, but here are some things I've learned to do:

* Use a .local directory under my home directory instead of ~/bin. That's a great prefix when installing from source or tarball at the user level, keeps the top-level of the home directory from getting cluttered with /share /lib /include /etc /lib etc. etc.

* Reach for the package manager first when installing new software, unless there is a good reason not to. It makes keeping things up-to-date easy, and since I use Arch, which uses a rolling release, you pretty much get the latest stuff.

* If I can't get what I want from the package manager, I'll look at what is available using asdf-vm (https://asdf-vm.com/), and failing that, build from source or install from tarball.

* I don't use snap or the like.

I gave up on Windows over 20 years ago, and I can't say enough how liberating it has been. One of the nicest things is that there is a distro for almost every need (see https://distrowatch.com/). I use Arch; but your use case may point to a beginner-friendly distro, such as Mint, Ubuntu, etc., or a repeatable install type of distro, such as NixOS or Guix, or many others.

# Download asdf git clone https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf.git ~/.asdf --branch v0.15.0 # Add the following to ~/.zshrc . "$HOME/.asdf/asdf.sh" # Optional: Completions are configured by either a ZSH Framework asdf plugin # or by adding the following to your .zshrc: fpath=(${ASDF_DIR}/completions $fpath) autoload -Uz compinit && compinit