zplugin VS zinit

Compare zplugin vs zinit and see what are their differences.

zplugin

Plugin manager with clean fpath and reports (by akatrevorjay)

zinit

Flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, Turbo, annexes, services, packages. (by zdharma)
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zplugin zinit
1 25
15 2,691
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10.0 6.5
about 8 years ago over 2 years ago
Shell C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later -
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zplugin

Posts with mentions or reviews of zplugin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-29.
  • github repo is missing
    6 projects | /r/zinit | 29 Oct 2021
    I just searched github for the latest fork, and it looks like the most recent fork is https://github.com/ryanstreur/zinit. I went ahead and forked it just in case and I have a version locally that I pulled down at Oct 12 17:12 PST. All zinit forks are showing as being forked from https://github.com/akatrevorjay/zplugin since https://github.com/zdharma/zinit is gone.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zplugin and zinit you can also consider the following projects:

zinit - 🌻 Flexible and fast ZSH plugin manager

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

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

zsh-snap - ⚡️ Znap! Fast, easy-to-use tools for Zsh dotfiles & plugins, plus git repos

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

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

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.

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

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

antibody - The fastest shell plugin manager.

z.lua - :zap: A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.

asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more