Here’s the Deal
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When comparing Prezto vs Antigen, the Slant community recommends Prezto for most people. In the question“What are the best ZSH configuration frameworks?” Prezto is ranked 1st while Antigen is ranked 5th.
Specs
Framework/Plugin Manager?Framework
Included plugins40
Included themes21
Bare load time60ms
Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking
Pros
Pro Lightweight
Pro Opt-in functionality
Pro No auto update
Prezto won't automatically update, which means that it won't ever start an update without your manual permission.
Pro Fork of oh-my-zsh
Prezto used to be a major fork of oh-my-zsh, and it was moved into a separate project to better focus on performance, simplicity, and customization.
Pro No bloat
Unlike oh-my-zsh, you just enable plugins and themes as required.
Pro Can simply plug in bundles from github
Cons
Con Slow
It works very slowly with some themes.
Con Slow
Implemented using e.g. forking functions returning via stdin, it is noticeably slow.