zsh-bench
starship
zsh-bench | starship | |
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24 | 298 | |
494 | 40,834 | |
- | 1.7% | |
4.1 | 9.7 | |
6 months ago | 6 days ago | |
Shell | Rust | |
MIT License | ISC License |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
zsh-bench
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Oh My Zsh
Someone's made a benchmarking system for zsh: https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench#premade-configs
Of course, their config is the best according to the benchmark (and ohmyzsh is the slowest option), but DIY configs are also covered, particularly possible performance optimizations.
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Faster Shell Startup with Shell Switching
Unfortunately, running exit is not a great strategy for running benchmarks. For zsh specifically, plugin managers are optimized for fast exit.
romkatv did a great write-up and benchmark within the context of zsh[0]. It's a great read.
[0] https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench#how-not-to-benchmark
- Dynamic Aliases and Functions in Zsh
- Benchmark for interactive zsh β plugins, frameworks and plugin managers
- zsh-smartcache: another evalcache but can update the cache
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Announcing Spaceship v4.0 β a customizable Zsh prompt with asynchronous rendering
Given the addition of async rendering in the latest release of spaceship, I wasn't sure whether I should include performance in the list of features found in powerlevel10kbut but not in spaceship. I used zsh-bench to benchmark powerlevel10k on my laptop running on battery (I'm writing this on a train) with a config that makes powerlevel10k looks similar to spaceship. I simply ran p10k configure and chose what looked most similar: Lean Style, UNICODE, 256 colors, two lines, etc. Here are the benchmark results:
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7x slowdown when modify $fpath and add completion script
Obligatory link since you are engaging in profiling interactive zsh: https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench.
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What is the best plugin manager in your opinion?
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
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Zsh significantly faster when sourced from bash with bash as default shell
In any case, slow zsh startup is always caused by whatever you put in zsh startup files and it's always possible to reduce zsh startup to imperceptible levels without sacrificing any functionality by editing said startup files. There is a bit of info on interactive zsh performance at https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench.
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Zpy is a simple zsh plugin manager written in python that don't add to the shell startup time.what to y'all think?
Why is this a good thing? Is this a proxy for performance? If so, you can measure performance directly with zsh-bench. This way you can describe the advantage in terms that have real value to end users. For example, you can say that the first prompt appears N milliseconds faster when using Zpy than if you were using something-else.
starship
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Atuin β Magical Shell History
Agreed, I use this in conjunction with Starship [1], both initialized specifically for Fish in the config. I love this shell so much.
[1] - https://starship.rs/
- Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell
- Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt
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Oh My Zsh
starship is the new spaceship, yo
https://starship.rs/
- Starship: Minimal, fast, infinitely customizable prompt for any shell
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Z β Jump Around
It seems like the Rust community is quite happy to support alternative shells. Iβve seen couple of projects, now, that support way more esoteric shells than I would expect, like βxonshβ. Starship (https://starship.rs/) immediately comes to mind.
- MacOS tools to make your life easier
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[MacOS] Setting up zsh in MacOS, any hints, dos/don'ts, advice, or guides?
Until now I have been using bash on Windows with Starship as the prompt. The only reason I went with Starship, is that it was easy to setup and at the time I did not have much free time to devout to the shell/prompt configuration.
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Monaspace
I'm staying on BitstromWera Nerd Font. Works great with Starship.
https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads
https://starship.rs
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Organizing Multiple Git Identities
I use conditional includes for this, but I also add a single letter describing which Git identity I'm currently using to my PS1 so that it appears before $ in my shell prompt. This prevents me from committing code with the wrong identity, in case I'm using a git checkout that's anywhere not covered by the conditional include rules.
I use Starship (https://starship.rs) to manage my prompt, and wrote a short script that only runs if I'm somewhere in a git repo, and if so finds my Git user's email and looks up the corresponding letter in an associative array declared in my ~/.config/starship-zsh/.zshenv:
git_email=$(git config --get user.email | perl -pe 'chomp if eof')
What are some alternatives?
fisher - A plugin manager for Fish
oh-my-posh - The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer
zinit - π» Flexible and fast ZSH plugin manager
spaceship-prompt - :rocket::star: Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt
sheldon - :bowtie: Fast, configurable, shell plugin manager
powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme
ohmyzsh - π 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.
zsh4humans - A turnkey configuration for Zsh
zsh-autocomplete - π€ Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.
oh-my-fish - The Fish Shell Framework
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.