lumen-oss/rocks.nvim

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1060 stars · 19 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

rocks.nvim is a Neovim plugin manager inspired by Rust's Cargo, built on top of LuaRocks. It lets users declare plugins in a rocks.toml file with semantic versioning, automatic dependency resolution, and build script handling.

Use cases

• manage neovim plugins with a declarative toml file
• install neovim plugins with automatic dependency resolution
• replace packer or lazy.nvim with a cargo-like plugin manager
• pin plugin versions with semantic versioning in neovim
• install luarocks packages inside neovim
• avoid manually writing build steps for neovim plugins

When to choose

• you want Cargo-style declarative plugin management for Neovim
• you want automatic dependency and build script handling instead of manual setup
• you need semantic version pinning or multiple versions of the same dependency
• you want an extensible plugin manager with a Lua API and companion modules like rocks-git.nvim

When to avoid

• you want maximum stability - a major v3.0.0 rewrite is planned and churn is expected
• you prefer a mature, battle-tested manager like lazy.nvim or packer
• you mostly install plugins from git without LuaRocks packaging
• you don't use Neovim

Facets

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package-manager plugin-system cli developer-tools developer-tools text-editors programming-languages lua cross-platform cli neovim-plugin-manager luarocks rocks-toml semantic-versioning dependency-management neovim

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