zinit VS zplugin

Compare zinit vs zplugin and see what are their differences.

zinit

🌻 Flexible and fast ZSH plugin manager (by zdharma-continuum)

zplugin

Plugin manager with clean fpath and reports (by akatrevorjay)
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zinit zplugin
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2,304 15
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8.2 10.0
3 days ago almost 8 years ago
Shell Shell
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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zinit

Posts with mentions or reviews of zinit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-08.
  • Deeply scammy looking zsh plugin manager called "zi"
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2024
    I don’t use zsh plugin managers myself, but it looks like zinit already had the ability to update itself. Why on earth replace a working solution with a broken one? zi won’t be able to load plugins when the computer is offline for no good legitimate reason that I can possibly think of.

    https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit#upgrade-zinit-and...

  • fish-shell: the user-friendly command-line shell
    24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2023
    Am i the only one who feels fish is not worth it despite of hype? Don't get me wrong. I think that fish is really good shell.

    BUT...

    After adding the following plugins to zsh(before you chime in, it's just adding these lines,not anything configuring much. also it auto bootstraps on new install), I found out that fish is no where near configured zsh.

    1) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit (plugin manager)

    2) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin...

    3) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-wo...

    4) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

    5) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions

    6) https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab

    7) any good shell prompt generator like https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

    For example, I use fzf integration for tab completion. Fish's fzf integration is nowhere as good as that of zsh's. Also, posix compat and almost bash compat of zsh is plus.

    I acknowledge that zsh isn't perfect shell either and I have tried and failed few times in past to switch to fish. If you provide me compelling reason/s to switch to fish, I am all ears.

  • Oh-my-zsh without oh-my-zsh?
    11 projects | /r/zsh | 11 May 2023
    You can use a plugin manager that supports oh-my-zsh plugins and libraries such as zinit (my personal favorite). You can also take a look at my personal project zunder-zsh.
  • Current state of plugin managers
    12 projects | /r/zsh | 9 Apr 2023
    If you want everything-and-the-kitchen-sink and don't mind that the original author bailed on the project in a way that was destructive to the Zsh community, then zinit is still around
  • Brew for plugins or clone the repo manually...
    4 projects | /r/zsh | 16 Dec 2022
    ```sh ❯ zinit self-update; zinit update [self-update] fetching latest changes from main branch From https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit * branch main -> FETCH_HEAD Already up to date. [self-update] compiling zinit via zcompile [self-update] reloading zinit for the current session Assuming --all is passed [self-update] updating zinit repository [self-update] fetching latest changes from main branch Note: updating also unloaded snippets
  • Demo: zsh4humans ssh teleportation
    3 projects | /r/zsh | 5 Dec 2022
    Cool idea but I'm zinit dependent
  • "|?|" renders at line wraps in Man, copies to clipboard as "-"
    8 projects | /r/bashonubuntuonwindows | 7 Oct 2022
    Zinit: Really quick plugin manager that loads multiple plugins via lazy loading, in parallel etc. It compiles the plugins upon installation.
  • This Week In Neovim #5 — Mon Aug 15 2022
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 15 Aug 2022
    You should try zinit
  • They say KDE is heavy on the resources but in my experience it's one of the most lightweight dekstop enviorenments. These are not virtual machines and I installed all on the same disk.
    2 projects | /r/kde | 7 Jul 2022
    Yeah. My setup is basically zinit with p10k and it's instant even on an old phone on Termux.
  • What are really usefull ZSH plug-ins?
    11 projects | /r/programming | 7 Jul 2022
    The one and only https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit

zplugin

Posts with mentions or reviews of zplugin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-29.
  • github repo is missing
    6 projects | /r/zinit | 29 Oct 2021
    I just searched github for the latest fork, and it looks like the most recent fork is https://github.com/ryanstreur/zinit. I went ahead and forked it just in case and I have a version locally that I pulled down at Oct 12 17:12 PST. All zinit forks are showing as being forked from https://github.com/akatrevorjay/zplugin since https://github.com/zdharma/zinit is gone.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zinit and zplugin you can also consider the following projects:

zi - ✨ A Swiss Army Knife for Zsh - Unix Shell

zinit - Flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, Turbo, annexes, services, packages.

zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

zinit - Flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, Turbo, annexes, services, packages.

antidote - https://getantidote.github.io - the cure to slow zsh plugin management

zinit - Flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, Turbo, annexes, services, packages.

zgenom - A lightweight and fast plugin manager for ZSH

zsh-defer - Deferred execution of Zsh commands

.dotfiles - :fireworks: Arch Linux with i3 / nvim / tmux / urxvt / zsh / ...

zsh-syntax-highlighting - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

alias-tips - An oh-my-zsh plugin to help remembering those aliases you defined once

zinit - Please visit https://github.com/z-shell/zi. As this repository is no longer supported.