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 or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (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.