# kitenv
> Your development environment toolchain, effortlessly managed.
## Overview
Referred to as "kite" throughout—the project is named `kitenv`, with a silent
"nv".
**kite** is a CLI and library that provides a streamlined way to manage your
language versions, formatters, linters, language servers, environment variables,
and other workspace-related configurations. A single declarative file,
backed by an extensible plugin system, enables effortless, cross-platform
toolchain orchestration.
## Why kite?
Developer environments today often require multiple languages, tool versions,
and environment setups across projects. Existing tools tend to focus on a single
aspect of this process, support only specific ecosystems, or introduce
containerization overhead.
**kite** aims to:
- Unify the management of the entire development toolchain
- Simplify environment variable and workspace configuration
- Provide a consistent developer experience across languages and platforms
- Offer extensibility via plugins for different languages and tools
- Maintain near-zero setup and runtime overhead
## Features
- Single declarative configuration file
- Version management for languages and tools across platforms
- Environment variable and PATH management
- Extensible plugin system for tool installation and versioning
- CLI commands for easy setup, activation, and inspection
- Interactive TUI for a clear project overview
- Editor integration for a simpler developer experience
- Cross-platform support
- Script aliases to simplify minimal workflows
## License
Licensed under either of
* Apache License, Version 2.0
([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
* MIT license
([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
## Contributing
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be
dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.