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Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments


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Docker, and the golden age of containerization it brought about, made working on and managing multiple projects less painful, but introduced new usability and maintainability issues to the Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC). Although this historical diatribe might seem unnecessary, especially for such a brief tutorial, my intention with it is to empthasize the importance of 1️⃣ being able to effortlessly keep different development environments and switch between them as well as how 2️⃣ doing so directly from the programmer’s main operating system, without additional layers of abstraction, can be valuable and improve one’s overall workflow. With that, we bid farewell once and for all to potential Python, or Ruby, version conflicts and are free to install, develop in, and manage as many runtime environments as we desire without affecting our main operating system or atleast with the possiblity to resolve problems much easier.

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