zinit VS zsh-snap

Compare zinit vs zsh-snap and see what are their differences.

zinit

Flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, Turbo, annexes, services, packages. (by zdharma)

zsh-snap

⚡️ Znap! Fast, easy-to-use tools for Zsh dotfiles & plugins, plus git repos (by marlonrichert)
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zinit zsh-snap
25 7
2,691 1,210
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6.5 5.4
over 2 years ago about 1 month ago
C Shell
- MIT License
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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 2021-11-01.

zsh-snap

Posts with mentions or reviews of zsh-snap. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.
  • Oh-my-zsh without oh-my-zsh?
    11 projects | /r/zsh | 11 May 2023
    Personally I use https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-snap as my plugin manager. You can just reference this baseline template that the author of the plugin manager has made if you want a sample config:
  • Current state of plugin managers
    12 projects | /r/zsh | 9 Apr 2023
    If you want something a bit different and interesting with a focus on cool features like instant-prompt, zcomet and zsh-snap
  • Why does zsh start so slowly?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2022
    You can use a plugin manager like https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-snap to cache the output of these commands. Using something like the packages version number as the cache key will ensure that it gets regenerated only once per package update as opposed to every shell launch.
  • What is the best plugin manager in your opinion?
    13 projects | /r/zsh | 5 Jul 2022
    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.
  • Good resources to learn zsh?
    7 projects | /r/commandline | 21 Nov 2021
  • zsh plugin managers ... a review ...
    8 projects | /r/zsh | 1 Aug 2021
    # Download Znap, if it's not there yet. [[ -f ~/Git/zsh-snap/znap.zsh ]] || git clone https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-snap.git ~/Git/zsh-snap source ~/Git/zsh-snap/znap.zsh # Start Znap znap prompt sindresorhus/pure # Go to prompt in just 15 to 40 ms! # Finish the rest of your .zshrc in the background. znap source zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions znap source zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting znap source marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete # Cache any script you like from the interwebs: znap eval iterm2 'curl -fsSL https://iterm2.com/shell_integration/zsh'
  • How good are Manjaro's default settings for zsh?
    3 projects | /r/zsh | 1 Aug 2021
    If you haven’t actually used Zinit yet, have a look at Znap instead. It’s just as fast, but has a much simpler syntax that is very close to native Zsh.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zinit and zsh-snap you can also consider the following projects:

oh-my-zsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 1700+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes nearly 300 optional plugins (rails, git, OSX, hub, capistrano, brew, ant, php, python, etc), over 140 themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community. [Moved to: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh]

zplug - :hibiscus: A next-generation plugin manager for zsh

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,200+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

zgenom - A lightweight and fast plugin manager for ZSH

sheldon - :bowtie: Fast, configurable, shell plugin manager

zplugin - Plugin manager with clean fpath and reports

antigen - The plugin manager for zsh.

antibody - The fastest shell plugin manager.

zpm - Zpm— Zsh Plugin Manager

zsh-autocomplete - 🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.