Good question! I don’t believe asdf and mise for Erlang work on Windows. Support for binary installs is unique too, I think. Plus, the eventual support for components – though maybe mise that could be added too, I know I use it for Go and install stuff for Go through it.

Not an answer but I’ll note that beamup has a long lineage going back over a decade. Starting with erln8 and then erlup when erln8 became unmaintained.

Its existence really boils down to that many years ago I wanted an Erlang installer that used links instead of environment variables like kerl and I wanted to learn Rust. Then when the name beamup came up I had to pounce on that, haha, and add support for other languages. Support for Windows came because it felt like something missing and could help the community and make this a viable tool to be promoted by Gleam.

I know where asdf and mise are for sure better: they are tested and mise has better Rust code

This is great and I am sure it will find its audience!

For those of us who use asdf or mise, what is beamup doing better than them?

vfox is a cross platform version manager.

Now on Linux, thanks to GitHub - gleam-community/erlang-linux-builds , you can install compiled builds of Erlang with beamup install erlang <TAG>. These are statically built so have caveats (see the repo’s README for more), the biggest one being NIFs don’t work. So you’ll likely want to instead do beamup install erlang --libc glibc erlang latest (or --libc musl) which fetches a build that will dynamically link to glibc or musl.

Also, I never replied that ELP was added, you can install ELP with beamup component install elp latest

Ah, that by itself is a very strong reason. Thanks for following up.

Sorry, what kind of components do you mean? The only association that springs to mind is rustup’s component subcommand where you can e.g. add source code to an existing Rust installation, or extra compiler tooling f.ex. WASM support.