Shims: Build a version manager

I’ve spent the last decade of my career in the developer productivity space. In that time I’ve helped countless developers setup their dev environments. Something I see time and time again are developers struggling with version managers for their programming languages. These tools are generally fine, but developers often don’t understand how they work which leads to frustration trying to get it to do what they want. In this article, we’ll build our own mini-version manager from scratch and along the way you’ll get an idea of how they work under the hood.