Thoughts on asdf as a possible toolchain provider

[andrejbaran]

Hey 👋

I was wondering what are your thoughts on intergration of asdf as an alternative toolchain provider?

It's a version manager for various toolchains (Rust, Go, PHP, Node, Bun, Deno, ....)

Thanks!

[milesj]

We built our own toolchain (proto) because there was nothing available that was truly cross-platform and performant. asdf is Unix only, and is written entirely with Bash scripts.

We needed something cross-platform, and ideally in Rust. Because of that, we have no plans to ever support another toolchain.

[andrejbaran]

Thanks for the quick response. That makes sense.

[airtonix]

you should probably rethink this.

somthing like running the asdf bash plugins in wasm would instantly give access to hundreds of plugins

[milesj]

There's a bounty for it: moonrepo/tools#9