I just discovered it this morning and it works like a charm as an asdf replacement for my Python setup at work. It also replaces "just" as a task manager for me which is very pleasant.

The fact that the python plugin uses precompiled Python binaries by default instead of building them from source remove common issues I had with the asdf's python plugin at work with missing dependencies.

Just so you know, I encountered two little quirks that needed a fix:

- "Backspace Key Doesn't work in Python REPL": https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/blob/mai...

- An issue with the mise-poetry plugin: https://github.com/mise-plugins/mise-poetry/issues/9

I will see how it goes in the long run, but I really like it so far :)

Tbh I don't find their comparison to asdf particularly compelling. While the asdf shims have downsides, besides that I think I prefer the more principled and tightly scoped approach that asdf has.

> mise makes heavy use of aliases so you don't need to remember if it's mise plugin add node or mise plugin install node. If I can guess what you meant, then I'll try to get mise to respond in the right way.

I prefer that there is one, correct, way of doing things and my tools not trying to guess what I want. If there are two different commands they should do two different things and it should be clear what the difference is. Keeping track of different aliases is just additional mental overhead to me.

I acknowledge that all this is very much a preferential thing, so I guess if this works for author then more power to them.

https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html

From my limited experience, python version management is crazy!

I've written medium sized personal python projects. I wasn't so concerned with reproducibility (and I didn't want to bog down my progress) but I still had to write startup scripts that would set up the environment correctly or I would be bit by something unexpected.

I write this from the perspective of a multi-decade c and c++ developer, take this for what you will.

Using it for several months and liking it a lot. No shims, just PATH entries. And the slight overhead introduced by shims is gone as a result.

I switched from asdf to mise after a comment on lobste.rs[1] suggested I do so a few months ago, and I have been very happy with it.

It sands off some of asdf's sharp UI edges and provides a somewhat larger but still reasonable feature set; I've also replaced most of my direnv[2] usage with it.

The mise -> asdf comparison page is useful[3]

1: https://lobste.rs/s/66uxbj/how_love_homebrew#c_mvmsjp

2: https://direnv.net/

3: https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html