Deeply scammy looking zsh plugin manager called "zi"

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  • zi

    ✨ A Swiss Army Knife for Zsh - Unix Shell

  • https://github.com/z-shell/zi?tab=readme-ov-file#%E2%84%B9%E...

    Well, it appears they do acknowledge it's a fork at least, but agreed I wouldn't want this on my computer. The toctou issue is ... Bleh.

  • zinit

    🌻 Flexible and fast ZSH plugin manager (by zdharma-continuum)

  • I don’t use zsh plugin managers myself, but it looks like zinit already had the ability to update itself. Why on earth replace a working solution with a broken one? zi won’t be able to load plugins when the computer is offline for no good legitimate reason that I can possibly think of.

    https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit#upgrade-zinit-and...

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