asdf/README.md

asdf

Manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool, extendable via plugins - docs at asdf-vm.com

asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis. It is like gvm, nvm, rbenv & pyenv (and more) all in one! Simply install your language's plugin!

Why use asdf?

• single CLI for multiple languages
• consistent commands to manage all your languages
• single global config keeping defaults in one place
• single .tool-versions config file per project
• support for existing config files .node-version, .nvmrc, .ruby-version for easy migration
• automatically switches runtime versions as you traverse your directories
• simple plugin system to add support for your language of choice
• shell completion available for common shells (Bash, Zsh, Fish, Elvish)

Documentation

Please head over to the documentation site for more information!

• Getting Started
• All Commands
• All Plugins
• Create a Plugin with our asdf-plugin-template
• asdf GitHub Actions

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md in the repo or the Contributing section on the docs site.

Community & Questions

• FAQ
• GitHub Issues: report a bug or raise a feature request to the asdf core team
• StackOverflow Tag: see existing Q&A for asdf. Some of the core team watch this tag in addition to our helpful community

Ballad of asdf

Once upon a time there was a programming language
There were many versions of it
So people wrote a version manager for it
To switch between versions for projects
Different, old, new.

Then there came more programming languages
So there came more version managers
And many commands for them

I installed a lot of them
I learnt a lot of commands

Then I said, just one more version manager
Which I will write instead

So, there came another version manager
asdf version manager - https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

A version manager so extendable
for which anyone can create a plugin
To support their favourite language
No more installing more version managers
Or learning more commands

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This was the mail I wrote to a few friends to tell them about the project. Thanks to @roshanvid for suggesting that this go into the readme

@HashNuke