zplug VS pz

Compare zplug vs pz and see what are their differences.

zplug

:hibiscus: A next-generation plugin manager for zsh (by zplug)

pz

The fast, native, Zsh plugin manager [Moved to: https://github.com/mattmc3/antidote] (by mattmc3)
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zplug pz
8 3
5,687 28
0.7% -
0.0 4.8
11 months ago about 2 years ago
Shell Shell
MIT License MIT License
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zplug

Posts with mentions or reviews of zplug. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-20.

pz

Posts with mentions or reviews of pz. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-09.
  • What if I told you you don't really need a Zsh plugin manager?
    14 projects | /r/zsh | 9 Nov 2021
    Here is link number 1 - Previous text "pz"
  • Zsh Plugin managers
    9 projects | /r/zsh | 19 May 2021
    Author of the PZ plugin manager here - I used zgen for a long time and it was always super fast, but the author seems to have totally disappeared. Zinit was fast, but complicated as you mentioned. I used antibody for awhile, but the author deprecated it. I switched to Znap but it was unstable at the time and not super fast.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zplug and pz you can also consider the following projects:

zinit - Flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, Turbo, annexes, services, packages.

chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.

zgenom - A lightweight and fast plugin manager for ZSH

zinit - 🌻 Flexible and fast ZSH plugin manager

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

zsh-defer - Deferred execution of Zsh commands

oh-my-fish - The Fish Shell Framework

alias-tips - An oh-my-zsh plugin to help remembering those aliases you defined once

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ 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.

antibody - The fastest shell plugin manager.