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"Please head over the documentation site" is a link back to the site. The ballad links to an old repo (fortunately Github redirects it) The all-plugins page 404's.

After giving up on the website I look at the code. It's a shell script. Wonderful.

I'll stick with Nix any day. Or maybe conda.



Do you have JS enabled? It does seem to be one of those pointlessly-JS SPAs. (Yes, I'm judging them for this choice.)


I wanted to see what the differences between asdf and nix were, and found a pretty lengthy article[1] that explained it quite well in the first few paragraphs. asdf is better than nothing, and better than multiple version managers for each language in one project, but it is a far cry from the portability and reliability of nix.

If you wanna do something quickly to ease the pain of version management, asdf is there, helpful, and ergonomic. But if you want to make version management an issue of the past and fix it for good, nix is the way to go.

So they both have their use. nix just feels more proper.


I'd be interested in that article - be great if you could re-up the footnote :)


Oh damnit, completely forgot. Seems like I can’t edit my comment anymore, so here you go: https://ejpcmac.net/blog/about-using-nix-in-my-development-w...


The all-plugins page works fine for me, and is no Shell script: https://asdf-vm.com/#/plugins-all


Yeah considering it doesn't work on windows, the more general tool nix, which has good integration with direnv works very well.


Are you browsing with JS turned off? (The page does some JS tricks)


Indeed, JS was off as it usually is.




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