https://www.alexiscouvreur.fr/tags/mise/Recent content in Mise on Alexis CouvreurHugoen-usWed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400https://www.alexiscouvreur.fr/blog/tool-versions/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400https://www.alexiscouvreur.fr/blog/tool-versions/<p>Work on a few projects and you start collecting version managers. <a href="https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm">nvm</a> for Node, <a href="https://sdkman.io">SDKMAN</a> for Java, <a href="https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv">pyenv</a> for Python, <a href="https://github.com/tfutils/tfenv">tfenv</a> for Terraform. Each one has its own install, its own setup in your shell, and its own file: <code>.nvmrc</code>, <code>.sdkmanrc</code>, <code>.python-version</code>, <code>.terraform-version</code>.</p> <h2 id="one-manager-per-language-doesnt-scale">One manager per language doesn&rsquo;t scale</h2> <p>They do their job. Node has had <code>.nvmrc</code> for years, so pinning a version isn&rsquo;t the hard part. Keeping all those managers around is. Every new project can mean one more on every laptop, and CI has to be told the same versions again, in its own way.</p>