lazy.nvim

✨ Features

• Partial clones instead of shallow clones
• waits till missing deps are installed (bootstrap Neovim and start using it right away)
• Async
• No need for compile
• Fast
• Correct sequencing of dependencies (deps should always be opt. Maybe make everything opt?)
• Config in multiple files
• Patterns for local packages
• Profiling
• lockfile
• upvalues in config & init
• check for updates
• lazy-lock.lua
• tag/version support git tag --sort version:refname
• auto-loading on completion for lazy-loaded commands
• bootstrap code
• semver https://devhints.io/semver https://semver.npmjs.com/

✅ TODO

• health checks: check merge conflicts async
  • unsupported props or props from other managers
  • other packages still in site?
  • other package manager artifacts still present? compiled etc
• rename run to build
• delete lazy keymaps when a plugin loads
• temp colorscheme
• allow setting up plugins through config
• task timeout
• log file
• deal with re-sourcing init.lua. Check a global?
• incorrect when switching TN from opt to start
• git tests
• max concurrency
• ui border
• make sure we can reload specs while keeping state
• show disabled plugins (strikethrough?)
• Import specs from other plugin managers
• use uv file watcher (or stat) to check for config changes
• packspec
  • add support to specify engines, os and cpu like in package.json
  • semver merging. Should check if two or more semver ranges are compatible and calculate the union range
    • default semver merging strategy: if no version matches all, then use highest version?
  • package meta index (package.lua cache for all packages)
• support for Plugin.lock
• defaults for git log
• view keybindings for update/clean/...
• add profiler to view
• add buttons for actions
• show time taken for op in view
• auto lazy-loading of lua modules
• clear errors
• add support for versions git tag --sort v:refname
• rename requires to dependencies
• move tasks etc to Plugin.state
• handlers imply opt
• dependencies imply opt for deps
• fix local plugin spec
• investigate all opt=true. Simplifies logic (easily switch between opt/start afterwards)

📦 Differences with Packer

• Plugin Spec:

  • setup => init
  • requires => dependencies
  • as => name
  • opt => lazy
  • run => build
  • lock => pin
  • module is auto-loaded. No need to specify

📦 Other Neovim Plugin Managers in Lua

• packer.nvim
• paq-nvim
• neopm
• dep
• optpack.nvim