I'm a big fan of fish, and running the author's test shows it only takes 0.008 seconds to start up on my machine. Before I switched to fish, I used prezto, and before that, I used oh-my-zsh. OMZ...
I'm a big fan of fish, and running the author's test shows it only takes 0.008 seconds to start up on my machine.
Before I switched to fish, I used prezto, and before that, I used oh-my-zsh. OMZ was the slowest out of the three, and the difference between prezto and fish was mostly down to preference between the actual shells.
I've been down this rabbit hole before :) I don't have many plugins, so I've resorted to simply clone their repositories and sourcing where appropriate. I did that because I found that the...
I've been down this rabbit hole before :) I don't have many plugins, so I've resorted to simply clone their repositories and sourcing where appropriate. I did that because I found that the plugin-manager machinery (I think I was using zplug) itself was slowing things down as well. I also remember reading somewhere that this all just works slower on macOS due to some interaction with the keychain, but my memory on that is fuzzy.
Could also just use prezto instead of OMZsh, too. OMZsh always felt too bulky and slow, especially on virtualbox.
I'm a big fan of fish, and running the author's test shows it only takes 0.008 seconds to start up on my machine.
Before I switched to fish, I used prezto, and before that, I used oh-my-zsh. OMZ was the slowest out of the three, and the difference between prezto and fish was mostly down to preference between the actual shells.
I've been down this rabbit hole before :) I don't have many plugins, so I've resorted to simply clone their repositories and sourcing where appropriate. I did that because I found that the plugin-manager machinery (I think I was using
zplug) itself was slowing things down as well. I also remember reading somewhere that this all just works slower on macOS due to some interaction with the keychain, but my memory on that is fuzzy.