zsh-snap VS antidote

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:

If you want something a bit different and interesting with a focus on cool features like instant-prompt, zcomet and zsh-snap

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.

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.

# 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'

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.

Although there are all sorts of Zsh starter kits and plugin managers out there, based on what you've described as an OMZ user, it seems like you would benefit most from investing in customizing your OMZ config with a $ZSH_CUSTOM folder and then saving your $ZSH_CUSTOM folder in a cloud git provider like GitLab, BitBucket, or GitHub.

Zinit seems overly complicated. I prefer antidote

Awesome! Glad it works well for you. Feedback welcome if you run into problems or would like to see new features: https://github.com/mattmc3/antidote/issues

[[ -e ~/.antidote ]] || git clone https://github.com/mattmc3/antidote.git ~/.antidote

Some notable features: - Antidote is not written in Go - it's a native Zsh implementation - Your existing antibody ~/.zsh_plugins.txt file should work without modification - All antibody commands are implemented (bundle, help, home, init, list, path, purge, update) for compatibility - If you load your plugins statically like you did with antibody, the performance is still astounding and will continue to rival any other plugin manager (Go not required, though I have nothing against Go - it's truly a great language) - I combed through old antibody issues for non-implemented feature requests and plan to implement some of them. Some, like zsh-defer support are already available - Cloning and updating are done in concurrently just like in Go - The feature roadmap is available by looking at the open GitHub issues