vim-plug not listed in plugin managers

[oj-lappi]

Wondering why the, afaik, most popular vim/nvim plugin manager, vim-plug, is not listed in plugin managers.

https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug has more than three times as many github stars as lazy.nvim, which is the plugin manager with most stars in the list here.

[fsouza]

First item in the check list: https://github.com/rockerBOO/awesome-neovim/blob/HEAD/.github/pull_request_template.md

[oj-lappi]

Could you please expand that explanation? do you mean that vim-plug is not on the list because it also supports vim?

vim-plug is a big part of the eco-system, most of the plugins listed in this repo give examples for installing using vim-plug. I would hope for there to be a well-founded reason for leaving it out.

[thetic]

The plugin is specifically built for Neovim, or if it's a colorscheme, it supports treesitter syntax

This is clearly not true for vim-plug.

[oj-lappi]

But it's the plugin manager many people would use to install these neovim plugins. It is weird and arbitrary to leave it out. Somehow the fact that vim-plug supports both vim and neovim is a reason not to list it?

And this criterion that it be designed only for neovim is not mentioned in the readme at all, instead it says this is a list of plugins "mostly targeting neovim features". If vim-plug can't be added to the list, can it at least be mentioned more prominently that parts of the ecosystem that also support vim are not listed.

I use neovim every day and just recently came across this repo looking for what the current ecosystem looks like. I was extremely confused when it was not listed. My first thought was that vim-plug was somehow outdated or considered bad practice, and I had to double check what the status of it was.

It is just strange to me that a repo for neovim plugins does not list the most prominent tool used by the community to manage plugins. Lazy.nvim might be challenging that position, but vim-plug clearly has a huge footprint. Searching vim-plug + nvim gives 36.1k "Code" hits in githubs search, compare to lazy.nvims 35.2k

I'm not making a value statement about which is better, but I'm saying it is extremely strange that a tool this popular in the community is not listed.

[tan-wei]

@oj-lappi The repo is "awesome plugins sepcial for Neovim".

[tversteeg]

See #574.

[oj-lappi]

Ok, it seems the readme's description of the repo is stale then, although the discussion in that issue never seemed to reach a conclusion. It just fizzled out.