Is there supposed to be a link?

For me it was

— I’d seen weirder things in Perl scripts —

Just perfect. No notes.

Heard about this the other day. I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks promising.

To be fair, arch could look like that after a few days.

If you like the idea of asdf, I would recommend looking at mise. It does all the same things (and more) and is much more performant in my experience.