zgenom VS zplug

If you liked legacy zgen, zgenom picks up where it left off and is simple but featureful

zgenom for zsh plugin manager. I've found this one to be fastest when compared to others since it generates a static init script

Author of Antidote here. I want to start by saying u/MrMarlon did a great job with znap, and it's a solid choice. zcomet and zgenom are also great. For modern Zsh plugin managers that are actively developed, I'd say these are my top 4 picks.

Plugin managers: ZI, Zinit, Zpm, Zgenom, Zgen (after and if the PR will be merged).

Have you had a look at zgenom?

Would you mind listing zgenom instead of/additionally to zgen? It's a maintained fork of zgen which has received some bug fixed and new features 😊

Please check it out at https://github.com/jandamm/zgenom and give a ⭐️ if you like it :)

Or zgenom[0]. Or if you want to get ESPECIALLY froggy and async with your shell startup, zinit[1]. I ran zinit for years before moving to zgenom. A large swath of electron apps use some weird NPM library to “resolve” your shell environment by kicking up a full interactive shell and then reading the environment variables out of it. zinit messed with that and would hang a lot because of all it’s async loading.

[0] https://github.com/jandamm/zgenom

if [[ ! -f "${HOME}/.zgenom/zgenom.zsh" ]]; then git clone https://github.com/jandamm/zgenom.git "${HOME}/.zgenom" fi source "${HOME}/.zgenom/zgenom.zsh" # check for updates ever 7 days zgenom autoupdate # only runs when ```.zgenom/sources/init.zsh``` doesn't exist # use zgenom reset to delete init.zsh if ! zgenom saved; then zgenom load zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions zgenom load zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting zgenom load marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete zgenom load mafredri/zsh-async zgenom load sindresorhus/pure zgenom load ${HOME}/.zsh/iterm2_shell_integration.zsh zgenom save fi

As haywire said you can try https://github.com/jandamm/zgenom (I'm the author).

Without looking too closely, I see that zplug disables monitor in at least three places in its code, and that some people have issues with it not getting re-enabled due to a stale lock file: zplug#374

I've been meaning to automate my Zsh setup for a long time, and have finally done it based on this awesome GitHub project. I updated the installation script to use Prezto and zplug to keep things a bit tidier, and added an option to automatically download the recommended Nerd Font for Powerlevel10k theme.

Yes it is incredibly heavyweight, but it's very batteries-included in its approach, which helps zsh newbies get started.

For those who want to shed the heavyweight omz stuff, I recommend zplug [0]

[0] https://github.com/zplug/zplug

fyi, the webpage tested in this case is here: https://github.com/zplug/zplug

I've been using zplug for a while now. Pretty happy with it. Some people say it's slower, but it's not been enough to be an annoyance.