rac - Rapidus Addon Curator

A minimalist, lightning-fast Zsh plugin manager.

About

Most Zsh plugin managers are bloated. They try to do too much - dependency graphs, deferred loading, configuration injection - and in the process, they slow down your shell. The reality is, most users never use even 80% of these features. `rac` is deliberately minimal. All it does is **download plugins** and **update plugins**.

Benchmarks

Manager	Startup Time	Lines of Code
rac	67.8ms	~200
zinit-turbo	74.5ms	~11,000

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H, 3 plugins, hyperfine -r 50. See benchmark.sh

Installation

Just put this in your .zshrc configuration:

RAC_HOME="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/rac"
[[ -d $RAC_HOME ]] || git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lomarco/rac.git $RAC_HOME
source $RAC_HOME/rac.zsh

Usage

rac is intentionally minimal. There are only two commands you need to know.

rac load zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
rac update

Zshrc example

RAC_HOME="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/rac"
[[ -d $RAC_HOME ]] || git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lomarco/rac.git $RAC_HOME \
  zcompile -U $RAC_HOME/rac.zsh
source $RAC_HOME/rac.zsh

rac load "romkatv/powerlevel10k" \
  "zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions" \
  "zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting"

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE for details.