I’m not who you asked, and not a user of pkgx, but one of the reasons I prefer rtx (which supports asdf plugins) to asdf is that by default it doesn’t use shims, but updates the PATH instead.
So for example, running which python will show me a clearly versioned python executable path, rather than a mysterious shim that represents a different realpath at different times.
jeffhykin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t have anything against the author, but the tool doesn’t hold up under professional usage.
The more versions you add, the slower it gets. And it can get really slow (that issue was opened in 2018, and it is fixable). And the delay is every time you call the command not every time you open a terminal or change directories.
It’s janky
It has [random side
(tools that are not even installed with ASDF) And the author said that’s a “wontfix”
Pkgx, Devbox and nix avoid all these things.