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by e12e
1861 days ago
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I love asdf, but one of the reasons it's so great are the other, dedicated, version managers (eg: ruby-build for asdf-ruby, rustup/cargo for asdf-rust etc). So asdf absolutely needs other version managers. Not sure how a ruby version manager in rust will help - the only thing that's slow with asdf-ruby is building any given version of ruby... And that can't really be significantly improved on? At least not for legacy versions. |
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Worth noting that there are benefits to doing a CLI in Rust other than raw processing speed:
1) Type system
2) Compared with C/C++:
2a) Safety
2b) Trivial cross-platform builds with no runtime dependencies
2c) Stellar package ecosystem to build on, including powerful CL arguments handling
3) Compared with interpreted languages
3a) No runtime dependencies
3b) Fast cold-start because it's a native binary
Of course none of these makes it the automatic winner, and several don't really apply when compared to shell scripts. But the type safety does, and another big one that comes to mind is trivial Windows support, which from a quick glance asdf doesn't seem to have.