zimfw VS zgenom

More on topic, I use zim, but mostly write my own plugins/modules/ad-hoc/post-hoc scripts

I’m using zimfw Flexible and fast. https://zimfw.sh

I was using oh-my-zsh as my plugin manager for a long time and startup speed was probably much slower than fish (although normal usage wasn't) because omz enables a lot of features and plugins I didn't need/use. I went to prezto and then antigen as plugin manager and for the last couple years I have been using zimfw, which is great compromise between a plugin manager that can add and update plugins, and literally just generating a small bootstrap script that just sources the plugins and otherwise is entirely out of the way.

zsh with zim framework

switch to zsh isntead of bash and use pre prepared framework for it, I like zim zsh

I moved most of my config over to zim -- been pretty happy for the most part. I see that zinit got forked, which makes me happy, that was a mess and what made me look elsewhere. Hopefully the new committers can do it well.

zimfw

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).