Speeding Up My ZSH Shell

1. starship

   1 329 58,223 9.7 Rust

   ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

   

   Once you have everything figured out, you just keep using the config you have. It might be worth the investment. I stopped using oh-my-zsh when I realized it was what was causing multi-second delays on Raspberry Pis.

   I think auto suggestions and syntax highlighting plugins can be installed separately from oh-my-zsh.

   I use starship for a better prompt, and it works on more shells than just Zsh.

   I also have Atuin installed to share history across machines, and as a benefit the history search is a lot more powerful.

   https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

   https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

   https://starship.rs

   https://atuin.sh

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. powerlevel10k

   2 305 54,349 5.7 Shell

   A Zsh theme

   

   https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k?tab=readme-ov-file#...

4. zsh-nvm

   3 6 2,397 0.6 Shell

   Zsh plugin for installing, updating and loading nvm

   

5. use-omz

   4 1 36 4.1 Shell

   A plugin to make using Oh-My-Zsh with antidote seamless

   

6. fish-shell

   5 373 33,611 9.9 Rust

   The user-friendly command line shell.

   

   You should try fish shell. Great user experience out of the box, including history suggestions.

   https://fishshell.com

7. zsh-autosuggestions

   6 154 35,637 4.3 Shell

   Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

   

   Once you have everything figured out, you just keep using the config you have. It might be worth the investment. I stopped using oh-my-zsh when I realized it was what was causing multi-second delays on Raspberry Pis.

   I think auto suggestions and syntax highlighting plugins can be installed separately from oh-my-zsh.

   I use starship for a better prompt, and it works on more shells than just Zsh.

   I also have Atuin installed to share history across machines, and as a benefit the history search is a lot more powerful.

   https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

   https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

   https://starship.rs

   https://atuin.sh

8. zsh-syntax-highlighting

   7 83 22,698 2.2 Shell

   Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

   

   Once you have everything figured out, you just keep using the config you have. It might be worth the investment. I stopped using oh-my-zsh when I realized it was what was causing multi-second delays on Raspberry Pis.

   I think auto suggestions and syntax highlighting plugins can be installed separately from oh-my-zsh.

   I use starship for a better prompt, and it works on more shells than just Zsh.

   I also have Atuin installed to share history across machines, and as a benefit the history search is a lot more powerful.

   https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

   https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

   https://starship.rs

   https://atuin.sh

9. prezto

   8 36 14,543 5.0 Shell

   The configuration framework for Zsh

   

   I switched to Prezto [0] because I found OMZ too slow. Prezto is much faster out of the box and doesn’t have a lot of things enabled by default. Definitely give it a try if you find OMZ too slow on your machine.

   [0] https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto

10. pure

    9 18 14,272 5.9 Shell

    Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt (by sindresorhus)

    

    There's so many plugin systems for zsh. From comments it seems like Pretzo is the main one suggested.

    But there's a huge list of different offerings. Looking at https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure?tab=readme-ov-file#inte... , there's also for example zim, zplug, zinit, zi. It's be so great to have see some deeper investigations or comparisons: is Pretzo really the best choice? Aside from seeming popularity, why?

    At least found this neat gist with a cheat sheet for different zsh plugin systems (and how very many there are!)

11. zimfw

    10 32 4,632 6.7 Shell

    Zim Framework: The Zsh configuration framework with blazing speed and modular extensions.

    

    I switched from Oh My Zsh to ZimFW because they have benchmarks showing it is faster: https://github.com/zimfw/zimfw

12. dotfiles

    11 17 45 8.4 Python

    Configs for apps I care about (by bbkane)

    

    I'm definitely not an expert, but I configure zsh manually with those fzf and "ghost text". I took some notes in my repo, just copy the relevant portions if you actually want to try this: https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/tree/master/zsh

    I tweak it occasionally, but for the most part I set it and forget it.

13. gum

    12 56 23,948 7.4 Go

    A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀

    

    I don't have anything against ZSH or similar shells. I think they are great, but they are not my thing.

    Latency is a deal-breaker for me, and this is where autocompletion engines generally introduce surprising user-interactive pauses. I've generally settled with using mksh (or OpenBSD's KSH depending on the environment) with little configuration outside of aliases, variables, and few local functions.

    When I need something more sophisticated, I lean on using Go or Elvish and potentially delegate some UI elements out to https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum.

    I'd rather keep my shell simpler and delegate out any other complexity to these other programs.

14. fish-async-prompt

    13 6 535 4.7 Shell

    Make your prompt asynchronous to improve the reactivity.

    

    Quite possibly, but I use it daily with no issues. It’s also pretty easy to write your own prompt and then make it async with this plugin: https://github.com/acomagu/fish-async-prompt

15. fast-syntax-highlighting

    14 12 1,258 1.8 Shell

    Discontinued (Short name F-Sy-H). Syntax-highlighting for Zshell – fine granularity, number of features and multiple shipped themes.

    

    Is this one better?

    https://github.com/zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting

16. znvm

    15 1 1 4.4 Shell

    Nodejs version managment for zsh

    

    I created an alternative because of nvm's slowness: https://github.com/Ajnasz/znvm

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