[notcolin]

> People abuse this system like you would not believe. The main offenders are people who copy oh-my-zsh and a ton of plugins into their dot files directory.

I have a hard time seeing this as "abuse". This is the late 2010s, not the early 1970s. Modern file storage medium is cheap and has come a long way. When laptops are shipping with (at minimum) 500GB hard drives, cloning a 5MB Oh My ZSH repo is arguably taking advantage of a well-known open source framework. It's not necessarily a black-and-white litmus test of technical incompetence versus not having the time to create something from scratch. Least with frameworks like OMZ and Antigen, I know that other people with more free time than me are reviewing the code and constantly improving it.

Disclosure: I keep the following at the beginning of my .zshrc:

  if [ -d "$HOME/.oh-my-zsh" ]; then
      ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh #leave this alone
      source ~/.oh-my-zsh/oh-my-zsh.sh
  else
      git clone https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.git ~/.oh-my-zsh
      ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh
      source ~/.oh-my-zsh/oh-my-zsh.sh
  fi