zsh-defer VS sheldon

zsh-defer

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

I've recently sped up my startup by using zsh-defer which has worked very well. I think nvm (the variant loaded through zsh) also has an option to load asynchronously without something like zsh-defer

I use zsh-defer for lazy plugin loading and I fork all plugin repos to avoid the same situation as with zinit

You can use this as a plugin for deferred loading like zinit: https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-defer

I prefer sheldon[1] for the few plugins I use

[1] https://github.com/rossmacarthur/sheldon

Personally, I prefer https://github.com/rossmacarthur/sheldon. It's simple yet flexible, fast and shell agnostic.

Yes! rossmacarthur/sheldon is easy to use.

I’ve switched away from using OMZ as an all-in-one framework that takes over my .zshrc, but I still use some of its plugins. Its plugin management is too slow for my tastes, but there’s a few plugins that I came to rely on.

Switching to Sheldon [0] has given me the best of both worlds.

[0] https://github.com/rossmacarthur/sheldon

I noticed that sheldon is missing from those benchmarks. Does it not qualify as a "zsh framework"?

I’ve been using sheldon for the past few months and been pretty happy with it. It seems plenty fast enough and the most obscure the verbiage gets is the toml config file.