zgenom VS zsh-defer

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).

zsh-defer

1.) It's fast. Like, really fast. 1.) It supports deferred loading via zsh-defer 1.) It supports local plugins as well as ones hosted via a git provider (aka: GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc) 1.) The codebase is simple and easy to understand and contribute to 1.) It supports git branches (with tag/shas on the roadmap) 1.) It supports partial plugin loading such as loading Oh-My-Zsh plugins and Prezto modules without loading the whole framework. 1.) There's an easy migration path from legacy plugin managers like Antigen/Antibody. 1.) Plugins are managed via a simple plugins file that makes it easy to share your config with others. 1.) And lots more

I've recently sped up my startup by using zsh-defer which has worked very well. I think nvm (the variant loaded through zsh) also has an option to load asynchronously without something like zsh-defer

I use zsh-defer for lazy plugin loading and I fork all plugin repos to avoid the same situation as with zinit

You can use this as a plugin for deferred loading like zinit: https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-defer