[Question] Comparison with mise

[victordidenko]

You've added comparison with asdf, but there is another tool exists: mise (former rtx)

Which takes same approach, as vfox, with environment variables, written in Rust, and supports asdf plugins out of the box. It also supports shims (as asdf), because environmental variables doesn't work well with IDEs. And overall looks much more mature, than vfox.

One advantage I see in vfox is Windows support. Something else?

[aooohan]

It also supports shims (as asdf), because environmental variables doesn't work well with IDEs.

This might be worth my attention, we have one feedback #84 similar to this before. Maybe it will be supported later, depending on the amount of feedback.

One advantage I see in vfox is Windows support. Something else?

Supporting Windows is the biggest advantage of vfox for now.

As you said, mise is indeed more mature than vfox. As a four-month-old project, vfox still has many areas that need to be optimized. For example, the plug-in ecology, mise benefits from the original plug-in ecology of asdf. And vfox We need to re-establish it. It can be seen that the directions of vfox and mise are not consistent at all.

Although we are all projects created to solve certain problems that asdf itself cannot solve, but vfox for asdf performance issues, cumbersome shell plugin development issues and Windows support issues. And mise only solves the performance and UX of asdf.

At present, from a functional point of view, vfox does not have any better advantages than mise for now, because vfox is simple enough and new.

In general, if you're accustomed to unix-like systems and prefer a more established project, mise would be your optimal choice.

[victordidenko]

Thank you for extended answer!

cumbersome shell plugin development issues

Fair enough, I didn't see that point, because I am just user, and not plugin developer 👍

[megatux]

As a Mise user, and former asdf user, I'd like to see it listed in the Readme. I'll definitely try vfox! looks great and I love the choice of Lua for its plugins. Thanks a lot!

[yanecc]

In fact, there is another similar tool, which is proto. You can simply create plugins through a Toml file, but if you want more complex functions, you'll have to write Rust code and compile it into wasm plugins. I like vfox largely because it is both simple and flexible to create or modify plugins using lua.

[victordidenko]

There are many out there, no need to mention all of them :) I've created this issue because vfox deliberately compares itself to a asdf and consider itself as its competitor. proto as I see, on the other hand, as part of a bigger toolchain, has different targets. It would be interesting to see comparisons with many other version managers, true, but I was ment to ask just about mise, because it already solves asdf issues, which vfox claims to be solving as well.

[sxlijin]

FWIW - mise is planning on using vfox to implement Windows support.

[jbadeau]

There are alot of similar tools like mise/vfox/asdf/proto/ which all have various features and benefits but what is really lacking in this space is

• standardised plugin format
• standardised registry format
• maybe a standardised config file (.tool-versions, *.toml)