Neovim now has built-in plugin manager

Originally posted on Reddit

Hello, Neovim users!

After rounds of discussions and iterations, Neovim now has a minimal built-in plugin manager. Its functionality is present only on latest master branch and located in vim.pack module. It is planned to land in 0.12 (which is still not quite soon).

You can read more about the design and workflow here. You can also see the demo of the latest state in the PR’s first comment.

The overall design is based on ‘mini.deps’ module, but it is visibly reworked to fix some of its shortcomings and to fit “minimal built-in plugin manager” requirements.

Couple of very important notes:

• I can not stress this enough, this is yet a WORK IN PROGRESS. There are many planned improvements. Expect breaking changes without notice. Only use it if you are comfortable fixing suddenly not working config.

• Early testing of existing features is appreciated. Suggestions about new features will be met very conservatively (at least until there is an ongoing planned work).

• It is not meant to provide all advanced plugin manager features. If you prefer to use a more capable plugin manager, it is totally normal. Probably even possible to use side-by-side with vim.pack.

There is still a long road ahead and we’ll walk it one step at a time. Thanks for reading and using Neovim!