What conclusion do you mean? Aqua is just one of the many backends it supports.
For example there's also the GitHub backend which lets you install binaries from releases, no plugin needed at all.
For example there's also the GitHub backend which lets you install binaries from releases, no plugin needed at all.
Overall there's too many ways to install things and it's not easy to add any of them. Asdf plugins were easy, but insecure (which could be fixed, but whatever). Everything else requires more research because it's more technical.
For most of them there's nothing to add though, you simply publish tools on GitHub/Cargo/etc. and mise will know how to install them.
https://mise.jdx.dev/registry.html#backends has a bit more current info.
I'm curious which dev tools you're using aren't installable with standard mise backends. 99% of dev tools I use don't require a plugin.
> (more painful than, say, an asdf plugin)
You can still use asdf plugins, I could use mise to install an asdf plugin right now with one line `mise use asdf:raimon49/asdf-hurl`. The mise registry is just a convenient list of aliases, even if it doesn't accept new asdf plugins, you don't need it to.
As Larry Wall said "make easy things easy and hard things possible"