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🌻 Flexible and fast ZSH plugin manager

12 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 12 comments · first 2021-10-31 · latest 2026-03-16

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  1. …Github with 4k stars. Implemented unit tests, containerization, bug fixes, and new features. See: https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit contributor @ Open-source documentation (5 years) Contributed hundreds of documentation…
    comment by vladdoster · 2026-03-16 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
  2. …[ ! -d $ZINIT_HOME ] && mkdir -p "$(dirname $ZINIT_HOME)" [ ! -d $ZINIT_HOME/.git ] && git clone https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit.git "$ZINIT_HOME" source "${ZINIT_HOME}/zinit.zsh" autoload -Uz compinit; compinit # Plugins zinit…
    comment by Zizizizz · 2026-01-10 · in Oh My Zsh adds bloat
  3. …Github with 4k stars. Implemented unit tests, containerization, bug fixes, and new features. See: https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit contributor @ Open-source documentation (5 years) Contributed hundreds of documentation…
  4. …Github with 4k stars. Implemented unit tests, containerization, bug fixes, and new features. See: https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit contributor @ Open-source documentation (5 years) Contributed hundreds of documentation…
  5. …Github with 4k stars. Implemented unit tests, containerization, bug fixes, and new features. See: https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit contributor @ Open-source documentation (5 years) Contributed hundreds of documentation…
    comment by vladdoster · 2025-10-15 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)
  6. …Github with 4k stars. Implemented unit tests, containerization, bug fixes, and new features. See: https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit contributor @ Open-source documentation (5 years) Contributed hundreds of documentation…
  7. …that has 3750 stars. Implemented unit tests, containerization, bug fixes, and new features. See: https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit contributor @ Open-source documentation (5 years) Contributed hundreds of documentation corrections…
    comment by vladdoster · 2025-08-12 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)
  8. …it auto bootstraps on new install), I found out that fish is no where as good as configured zsh. 1) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit (plugin manager) 2) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin... 3)…
    comment by ireallywantthat · 2023-08-26 · in Fish – A friendly interactive shell
  9. Look into https://ohmyz.sh/ or https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit (or any other plugin managers) and some nice plugins.
    comment by konart · 2022-05-16 · in Zsh 5.9
  10. zinit did wonders for my config, would highly recommend: https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit
    comment by disk0 · 2021-11-25 · in The fish shell is amazing
  11. …have to ensure that your scripts are run with bash or whatever shell the script was made for. [^1]: https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit
    comment by bronzecarnage · 2021-11-21 · in Oil 0.9.4 – User Feedback
  12. So weird, hopefully the community has a fresh branch to push somewhere. https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit/
    comment by focom · 2021-10-31 · in Zinit author has suddenly disappeared