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Re:Neovim Pack by saint_yossarian on Thursday September 04, 2025 @09:38AM (#45127159)
AFAIK using setup() is actually a cargo-cult practice and discouraged by the Neovim maintainers.
Re:Neovim Pack by kzrdude on Thursday September 04, 2025 @12:11PM (#45128858)
echasnovski seems to like it (and he's a maintainer I think)
Re:Neovim Pack by mrcjkb on Thursday September 04, 2025 @02:43PM (#45130754)
His use case is mini.nvim, a huge bundle of plugins where you most likely don't want each plugin initialising automatically.

He and I are on very opposite ends of the "setup spectrum", but we have found common ground, which is that you shouldn't cargo cult it: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/35600/files