zsh VS starship

Compare zsh vs starship and see what are their differences.

zsh

Mirror of the Z shell source code repository. (by zsh-users)

starship

β˜„πŸŒŒοΈ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! (by starship)
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zsh starship
73 298
3,444 40,834
1.3% 3.3%
8.5 9.7
7 days ago 2 days ago
C Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later ISC License
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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

Posts with mentions or reviews of zsh. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-09.

starship

Posts with mentions or reviews of starship. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zsh and starship you can also consider the following projects:

ohmyzsh - πŸ™ƒ 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.

oh-my-posh - The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer

vscode-material-icon-theme - Available on the VSCode Marketplace

spaceship-prompt - :rocket::star: Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

node-sass - :rainbow: Node.js bindings to libsass

zsh-autocomplete - πŸ€– Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

vscode-indent-rainbow - Extension which shows indentation with a faint rainbow colored background to make them more readable

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.