zinit VS zpm

Compare zinit vs zpm and see what are their differences.

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zinit zpm
24 2
2,313 336
3.7% 3.6%
8.0 6.3
8 days ago 19 days ago
Shell Shell
MIT License GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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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

zpm

Posts with mentions or reviews of zpm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-25.
  • ⚙️ ❮ ZSH Plugin Standard ❯
    9 projects | dev.to | 25 Feb 2022
    Plugin managers: ZI, Zinit, Zpm, Zgenom, Zgen (after and if the PR will be merged).
  • zsh plugin managers ... a review ...
    8 projects | /r/zsh | 1 Aug 2021
    So I went spent a day going through every single plugin manager on the awesome zsh page. Most hadn't been updated in over a year which left me with a few, very new projects (only a handful of commits) and miniplug , zpm, and zgenom as the most likely candidates.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

zsh-snap - ⚡️ Znap! Fast, easy-to-use tools for Zsh dotfiles & plugins, plus git repos

zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

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

zsh-quickstart-kit - A simple ZSH quickstart for using ZSH, zgenom, oh-my-zsh and a curated list of extra plugins. It is designed to be easy to customize without requiring you to maintain your own fork.

zgenom - A lightweight and fast plugin manager for ZSH

antigen - The plugin manager for zsh.

zplugin - Plugin manager with clean fpath and reports

zsh-defer - Deferred execution of Zsh commands

zsh-notify - Desktop notifications for long-running commands in zsh.