Have you used or considered nix before? I’m looking into both right now and wonder what the advantage of asdf is, as nix seems to be the more robust option.
I think we have looked into Nix briefly. It seems great. I wonder how well it works cross-platform or if it forces us to either maintain a Darwin and Linux version, or using the Linux version in a VM.
The whole idea seems to be that you don’t need to care about the platform. You use the same .nix file to start a shell with a custom environment on Linux, Darwin and Windows WSL. Even aarch64 is fully supported and all binary packages are built for it as well, so even on the M1 Macs it should just work.
Granted, I didn’t try any of this yet, but the more I read about it, the more I want to. You can even build docker images from the .nix file so the CI/CD pipeline will have the exact same environment as all the dev machines.
