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Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

I love asdf but the one thing that bugs me is that running `asdf install` inside a folder containing a .tool-versions file won't automatically install the plugins needed to…

codethief used a recommendation phrase. 2 indexed comments match. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:01:40 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year84 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-05-22 16:39:07 UTC to 2026-03-24 17:06:57 UTC.

051015202015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 3 submissions, 4 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 3 submissions, 8 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 2 submissions, 7 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 3 submissions, 5 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 20 mentions; 2 submissions, 18 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC734
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1138
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC927
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC835
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC20218
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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TheAceOfHearts·Aug 26, 2017Recommendation phrase
On the subject of version managers for multiple programming languages, people might be interested in checking out asdf [0]. nvm was my favorite tool for handling multiple node versions, but I've found asdf suits my needs a bit better. I'd still reach for nvm for deploying to a server. To the best of my knowledge, the code is portable across all UNIX-y OSs. On the other hand, asdf supports multiple languages, so I was able to kill off rvm too! It also has considerably better performance (specifically, startup speed). EDIT: As to the discussion regarding Ayo.js... I've never interacted with Rod personally, but having read a few hundred of his miscellaneous responses on GitHub, he has never struck me as someone unreasonable. His response to the criticisms being raised seem very reasonable as well. If anything, I now feel like I have a bit m
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ore trust on node team. Based on my highly limited outsider's perspective, trying to kick him seems overly harsh. If people believe he's doing things poorly, an avenue should be created through which constructive criticism and feedback can be provided. We're all human, we make mistakes, and we sometimes don't understand each facet of problems we encounter. [0] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
In Nvm will **not** be adding support for Ayo.js
seanp2k2·Jun 14, 2017
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 Ubuntu has been shipping Python 3.x since 13.04 and 3.x is the default with 2.x available since 16.04 , so in terms of shipping Python 3 code, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (the last LTS where you can't assume it has a python 3) EOL'd on April 28 2017. Assuming $WORK follows EOL depredations, you should be fine for Ubuntu.
In New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3

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