I would've thought that Antigen would've been more like Pathogen for vim. Apparently, I am behind the times.

Well I guess the intent is the same but it looks a lot more like Vundle (or Bundler). You just have to define the package name in a textfile (like with Bundler) instead of managing git submodules or downloading plugins another way into their own folder.

It doesn't work the same way but I use this and like it: https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto

Antigen can pull plugins (or modules as prezto calls them) from prezto too. This is a recently added feature which might break occasionally. I personally don't use the prezto loading features in Antigen.

Thanks, I appreciate the heads up. I prefer the Vundle style approach personally but options are always great :)

I started using antigen for my dotfiles (https://github.com/js-coder/dotfiles) a while ago, and it's really awesome. However it does make sourcing `~/.zshrc` pretty slow.

that seems like a big disadvantage, considering how often it is sourced in a working day

There is some work on trying to speed things up, check out https://github.com/zsh-users/antigen/pull/37 (or my fork, https://github.com/wrboyce/antigen) [edit: fix typo]

Just for reference, Mat Schaffer has had a similar project for about a year, same basic goal: https://github.com/matschaffer/zundle

He also uses it to build a nice default zsh profile here: https://github.com/matschaffer/zsh-matschaffer

I've seen antigen before, thing is, zsh plugins, especially useful ones, are few and far between.

I have ~30 plugins installed with Vundle, and regularly add and play with new ones.

For zsh I have exactly two (syntax highlighting and one I'm forgetting at the moment) and I can't remember the last time I saw another that looked useful.

The big difference as I see it is that the primary hassle with plugins in Vim, the fact that plugins normally all get dropped into a single directory and mixed around in such a way that they are nearly impossible to remove, doesn't really exist for zsh. You just source files wherever you happen to put them.

The features Vundle has that surpass Pathogen are also the features that I don't really consider that valuable.

Agreed (on your first point), that's definitely another reason I haven't considered using antigen.

The main feature Vundle has over pathogen for me is that I don't ever want to manage a git submodule when not forced.

So the longterm goal of this would be to replace oh-my-zsh and it's host all plugins in one repository and hope robyrussel merges the change request?

Sounds pretty good if this works out I think. Are there any obvious downsides?

Woah, the hackernews effect is quite impressive. The github project more than doubled in stars (now at 280) over the past 6 hours since posting this.

Author here.

I'm late here, but if there are any questions, I'll answer.

Seeing the github stars shoot up, I guessed HN happened to the project. Here we are :)

I'm in no way affiliated with the project. I just thought it needed some more attention because it is awesome.

zprezto, 'nuf said.