Show HN: Asdf Clone Written in Rust

• asdf

  339 20,393 7.9 Shell

  Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

  

I think that asdf (https://asdf-vm.com) was a great idea for a project. It helps consolidate installing and running different programming languages into a similar UX. It also is built with a plugin interface that makes it easy to build support for new languages.

However it is so slow. I was just testing `node -v` and it was taking ~900ms. That kind of overhead is completely unusable. My shell prompt uses runtimes inside of it for various things so this effectively makes every command take multiple seconds to complete.

So I rebuilt it in Rust but using the same plugin ecosystem so it should be a drop-in replacement. I also added a couple of features that I wanted from asdf (aliases and fuzzy-matching).

Let me know what you think! Just know that people have only been using this for a few days so if you see any bugs, they're likely not big hairy issues, just overlooked edge-cases and will be fixed soon.

https://github.com/jdxcode/rtx

• mise

  40 5,896 9.9 Rust

  dev tools, env vars, task runner

I think that asdf (https://asdf-vm.com) was a great idea for a project. It helps consolidate installing and running different programming languages into a similar UX. It also is built with a plugin interface that makes it easy to build support for new languages.

However it is so slow. I was just testing `node -v` and it was taking ~900ms. That kind of overhead is completely unusable. My shell prompt uses runtimes inside of it for various things so this effectively makes every command take multiple seconds to complete.

So I rebuilt it in Rust but using the same plugin ecosystem so it should be a drop-in replacement. I also added a couple of features that I wanted from asdf (aliases and fuzzy-matching).

Let me know what you think! Just know that people have only been using this for a few days so if you see any bugs, they're likely not big hairy issues, just overlooked edge-cases and will be fixed soon.

https://github.com/jdxcode/rtx

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