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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

CLI and shell plugin to auto-switch runtime versions based on per-directory configuration. Reads tool versions file(s) to determine which runtime to install and link to. Supports Bash, Zsh, Fish, Xonsh. Supports asdf plugins. Designed for performance by not using shims (\~120ms overhead in asdf) instead updating PATH to directly call runtimes.

Tradeoffs

No Windows support. Can conflict with direnv.

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