On my system, hyperfine says fish loads in about 85ms:

  Benchmark 1: fish -il -c exit
    Time (mean ± σ):      85.0 ms ±   3.3 ms    [User: 50.1 ms, System: 31.4 ms]
    Range (min … max):    82.9 ms … 101.1 ms    28 runs

https://arunmozhi.in/2024/09/06/replacing-pyenv-nvm-direnv-w...

- also you should put a list of all your article. (titles only) on some page called /archive or something

- i really dont want to scroll 5000 pages to see the last 20 articles you wrote

- just a suggestion from a ui / ux perspective

On a 6-year old desktop PC with a Ryzen CPU, an interactive zsh starts in 20 ms and a login zsh starts in 60 ms.

The configuration file for the interactive zsh, i.e. "~/.zshrc", has 75 lines and it configures completions (in the default manner added to ~/.zshrc by compinstall), binds some keys, sets umask and some shell options and defines a bunch of environment variables (including the prompt) and of command aliases.

I do not see what else would be needed, which could increase the starting time.

My login zsh takes 40 ms longer because I do not use a GUI login, but the classic CLI login, so the login zsh checks if a GUI desktop session is running and if not it starts the session (obviously, the 60 ms login zsh starting time is for when the GUI session is already running).

I’ve been using mise [1] to manage node versions since with zero issues.

[1] https://mise.jdx.dev

What all is happening in the Zsh profile?

zprof helped me and the LLM profile and we found it was one plugin, which wasn't really intended specifically for zim. Fixed that! https://github.com/lipov3cz3k/zsh-uv/issues/2

Man it feels so good having shells just open so lightning fast.