Does Arch have anything like Debian's Alternatives system, that lets you install multiple versions of the same software?

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  • asdf

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

    • Not that I know of. I use ASDF: https://asdf-vm.com/#/. It's awesome! It works as a package manager for multiple language versions. I use it for Python, Ruby, Go and NodeJS but it has support for many more.

  • SDKMan

    The SDKMAN! Command Line Interface

    • sdkman is amazing for JVM tools (Java, Scala, Groovy, Kotlin, etc). It’s inspired by the rvm/rbenv class of tools.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • fnm

    🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust

    • For Node specifically I found that any type of version manager slows down my shell startup too much so I decided to manually store/alias “current” versions with a small shell script. It was only after I did that that I found FNM. Can recommend: https://github.com/Schniz/fnm

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