Aha! Now I know that nvm was slowing my shell startup down. Now I've reconfigured .zshrc to lazy-load nvm, and everything's snappy: zstyle ':omz:plugins:nvm' lazy yes
Same. I switched to fnm.
Speeding up my ZSH shell
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#12Thanks - that pushed me to profile, and as others mentioned nvm was the biggest culprit, then powerline status, which i swapped to powerline-go. nice and snappy startup time now.
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#13From the post, it seems like ZSH tries to update on every shell spawn: DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="true" WTF? Even if we ignore the crime of non-critical software updating itself, the fact that it does it on every start instead of every day or week is insane. I do not want my shell sending network requests to odd servers without explicit action from me, thanks.
oh-my-zsh, not zsh
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#14Fish shell with starship. You will never look back.
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#15I'd be rather skeptical about the "fix" of updating the completion cache once a day only. Enabling oh-my-zsh already runs `compinit` and it does so after changing the function path in `fpath`. By running it again with a different `fpath` you invalidate the previous cache - meaning it builds a fresh cache twice every time you start zsh. If you use a plugin framework that already runs compinit, simply don't run it again separately. And make sure that `compinit` is only run after the final plugin or whatever has finished changing `fpath`. If you get that right, you'll only ever need to regenerate the cache when something actually updates.
Re: Speeding up my ZSH shell
#16Fish shell with starship. You will never look back.
Funnily enough, the startup delay of oh-my-zsh is exactly what prompted me to try out fish and eventually starship on top. I have not looked back as you say!
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#17Oh-my-zsh is very bloated. You might not need it, since its most used features can be implemented with zsh directly: https://ianyepan.github.io/posts/moving-away-from-ohmyzsh/
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#18Oh-my-zsh has a lot of cool and handy features, but it is a huge and complex beast. Personally, I only cared about 3–4 features, so I simply removed it and sought out how to enable those features alone. Additionally, a lot of functionality which I wanted wasn’t there in OMZ, so my setup had a lot of custom bits anyway. My zshrc, for reference: https://git.sr.ht/~whynothugo/dotfiles/tree/269248912920d25e...
What's with the emoji alias?
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#19Re: Speeding up my ZSH shell
#20Aha! Now I know that nvm was slowing my shell startup down. Now I've reconfigured .zshrc to lazy-load nvm, and everything's snappy: zstyle ':omz:plugins:nvm' lazy yes
You should try switching to mise. I tried fnm too which was an improvement but mise does the same as fast and supports essentially every language