If you've been using Neovim for a while, you've likely traversed the plugin manager landscape: from the classic vim-plug to packer.nvim, and more recently, the dominance of lazy.nvim. These tools are fantastic, but as Neovim's core evolves, so do the possibilities for how we manage our environments.
Enter pack.nvim.
If you haven't been keeping up with recent Neovim releases, you might have missed a massive feature drop introduced in 0.12: Neovim now has a powerful, fully-featured native package management API via vim.pack. It can clone, checkout, update, and manage lockfiles out-of-the-box.
But while the native backend is robust, it intentionally lacks the flashy UI and rich developer experience features we've grown accustomed to. That's exactly where pack.nvim comes in.
pack.nvim is a modern, high-performance Neovim plugin manager that sits directly on top of Neovim's built-in vim.pack API.
