Hacker GitHub

← All repos

asdf-vm/asdf

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 25,611 Go

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

82 mentions on Hacker News by 67 people: 16 stories, 66 comments · first 2016-06-21 · latest 2026-03-24

Mentions per year 82 mentions · busiest year 2022 (20)
20082026
AllStoriesComments NewestTopOldest
  1. …pruned to avoid duplication (though perhaps knowing what's popular is a good metric too). asdf: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf - installs many different programming languages and supports installing different versions concurrently. I use…
    comment by jpeeler · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  2. Polyglots might also be interested in asdf ( https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf ). It's like Pyenv but supports various languages via a plugin system (eg. https://github.com/danhper/asdf-python ).
    comment by rhizome31 · 2018-10-18 · in Python's New Package Landscape
  3. …languages. I'm not sure if I'd use it for deployment - but for development it's quite versatile. https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
    comment by e12e · 2018-07-15 · in Taking Go modules for a spin
  4. Try a language manager. One I know to work on MacOS is asdf https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf Then, there is something wrong with either brew or MacOS or both because we can install both Python 2 and 3 in parallel on any Linux with the…
    comment by pmontra · 2018-07-06 · in Walkthrough for Systemd Portable Services
  5. …file in its root to specify the exact language version I'm developing and deploying against. [0] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2018-07-05 · in Walkthrough for Systemd Portable Services
  6. …that with AppleScript (or with JavaScript in newer versions), but it's still not frictionless. [0] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf [1] https://github.com/kennyp/asdf-golang
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2018-05-09 · in Eshell as a main shell
  7. …follows a lot of best practices that various dedicated version managers seem to pick up eventually: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
    comment by e12e · 2018-05-08 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?
  8. …which is the latest version. I keep it up to date with ppa.launchpad.net/git-core/ppa/ubuntu [1] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
    comment by pmontra · 2018-04-27 · in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released
  9. …a simple `asdf install`. We even use this in CI for zero-config language version upgrades. [0]: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
    comment by s0l1dsnak3123 · 2017-09-05 · in Show HN: Hatch – A modern project, package, and virtual env manager for Python
  10. …human, we make mistakes, and we sometimes don't understand each facet of problems we encounter. [0] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2017-08-26 · in Nvm will **not** be adding support for Ayo.js
  11. You should use homebrew to join the pythonistas club on Mac. Better yet, use https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/blob/master/README.md to get all the pythons, rubies, nodes, and golangs you want. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS plans on Python 3-only, but…
    comment by seanp2k2 · 2017-06-14 · in New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3
  12. …but I think it's slowly getting better over time. The pros outweigh the cons for me. [0] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf [1] https://github.com/fisherman/fisherman
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2017-01-15 · in Mastering Bash and Terminal
  13. …had a single problem with it yet - it just works (™). I recommend trying it out, relevant links: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang
    comment by shadeless · 2016-09-23 · in Erlang Installer Beta: A Better Way To Use Erlang On OS X
  14. …be released, or something like that, I don't recall the details. At any rate I've been using asdf https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf to manage my erlang and elixir installs on a per project basis for a while now and it has been working well…
    comment by adamkittelson · 2016-09-23 · in Erlang Installer Beta: A Better Way To Use Erlang On OS X
  15. …nothing to do in particular. If you want an easy way to install both, you can check asdf [1]. [1]: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
    comment by tuvistavie · 2016-06-22 · in Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released
  16. I'm using asdf - it has the added advantage of being able to manage ruby, erlang, node, and more :) https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
    comment by s0l1dsnak3123 · 2016-06-21 · in Elixir v1.3 released