Does Arch have anything like Debian's Alternatives system, that lets you install multiple versions of the same software?

This page summarizes and extends the software alternatives mentioned in the source post on Reddit.

2021-04-02

Programming Front End Package Manager Programming Tools

asdf-vm Landing Page
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asdf-vm

An extendable version manager
Pricing:
- Open Source
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NixOS Landing Page
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NixOS

25 Jun 2014 . All software components in NixOS are installed using the Nix package manager. Packages in Nix are defined using the nix language to create nix expressions.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Personally recommend using Nixpkgs for this purpose. I use it to pin the nodejs version (and pkg deps) as well as GHC (and pkg deps) for a work project and it makes it pretty easy to develop on any Linux distro. If you're brave you may also like to look at NixOS itself; I haven't because I've never had the time to justify doing it when I'm ok with my general "system" packages (kernel, DE etc) just being the latest stable release which is what Arch provides, but I have heard it makes configuring your system really breezy.

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