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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

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    Asdf – Extendable Version Manager with Support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, more
    story by pvinis · 2019-11-06 · 0 comments
  2. Or usev another version manager: I use asdf https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
    comment by izietto · 2019-11-02 · in Why to use ‘python -m pip’
  3. …pyenv with asdf [0]. asdf is like pyenv, but it works for all major programming languages. [0] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
    comment by Rotareti · 2019-09-24 · in Ask HN: How do you handle/maintain local Python environments?
  4. …ton of other stuff. Through it I create virtualenvs, each targeting a particular version of Python. https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
    comment by eropple · 2019-09-24 · in Ask HN: How do you handle/maintain local Python environments?
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    Extendable Version Manager with Support for Python, Ruby, Node, Elixir and More
    story by fouc · 2019-05-21 · 1 comment
  6. …about what asdf is and why it is useful. One of the maintainers already has a PR out to fix this - https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/pull/441 If you have any suggestions on what the readme should say feel free to open an issue or a small PR.
    comment by Stratus3D · 2019-01-27 · in Show HN: Fnm – Fast and simple Node.js version manager built in ReasonML
  7. Great work, but you'd have to pry asdf out of my cold, dead hands. https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
    comment by midgetjones · 2019-01-24 · in Show HN: Fnm – Fast and simple Node.js version manager built in ReasonML
  8. …plug-in that re-uses a lot of the tooling for rbenv/build. (as does the rust plug-in, and others) https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
    comment by e12e · 2019-01-23 · in Show HN: Esy – fast and simple package management for native ReasonML/OCaml
  9. …to do all, and avoid the need to handle more than one "magic" session in your bashrc(etc): "asdf": https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf Now, a few new languages do come with pretty decent "virtual env" thingy-s , but most stumble for a few…
    comment by e12e · 2019-01-04 · in Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient
  10. …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?
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    The best version manager I've found so far
    story by adriansky · 2018-10-25 · 2 comments
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    Multi Programming language version manager for Node, Ruby and more
    story by adriansky · 2018-10-19 · 1 comment
  13. 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
  14. …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
  15. 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
  16. …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
  17. …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
  18. …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?
  19. …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
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    Extendable version manager with support for Node.js, Ruby, Go, Erlang and more
    story by brunoluiz · 2018-02-05 · 0 comments
  21. …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
  22. …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
  23. 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
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    Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang and more
    story by Walkman · 2017-04-17 · 0 comments
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    Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang and more
    story by kaizoku111 · 2017-03-07 · 0 comments
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    Asdf: Extendable Version Manager
    story by rubyn00bie · 2017-02-18 · 2 comments
  27. …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
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    Asdf – An extendable version manager for Node.js (and more)
    story by simplify · 2016-10-24 · 0 comments
  29. …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
  30. …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
  31. …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
  32. 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