diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8a9deba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+result
+log
diff --git a/nvim/bytecompile.nix b/nvim/bytecompile.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fff0a33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nvim/bytecompile.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+{
+  pkgs,
+  lib,
+  ...
+}: rec {
+  # Stolen from https://github.com/nix-community/nixvim/pull/1887
+
+  writeByteCompiledLua = name: text:
+    pkgs.runCommandLocal name {inherit text;} ''
+      echo -n "$text" > "$out"
+
+      ${lib.getExe' pkgs.luajit "luajit"} -bd -- "$out" "$out"
+    '';
+
+  byteCompileLuaHook = pkgs.makeSetupHook {name = "byte-compile-lua-hook";} (
+    let
+      luajit = lib.getExe' pkgs.luajit "luajit";
+    in
+      pkgs.writeText "byte-compile-lua-hook.sh" # bash
+      
+      ''
+        byteCompileLuaPostFixup() {
+            # Target is a single file
+            if [[ -f $out ]]; then
+                if [[ $out = *.lua ]]; then
+                    tmp=$(mktemp)
+                    ${luajit} -bd -- "$out" "$tmp"
+                    mv "$tmp" "$out"
+                fi
+                return
+            fi
+            # Target is a directory
+            while IFS= read -r -d "" file; do
+                tmp=$(mktemp -u "$file.XXXX")
+                # Ignore invalid lua files
+                if ${luajit} -bd -- "$file" "$tmp"; then
+                    mv "$tmp" "$file"
+                else
+                    echo "WARNING: Ignoring byte compiling error for '$file' lua file" >&2
+                fi
+            done < <(find "$out" -type f,l -name "*.lua" -print0)
+        }
+        postFixupHooks+=(byteCompileLuaPostFixup)
+      ''
+  );
+
+  byteCompileLuaDrv = drv:
+    drv.overrideAttrs (
+      prev:
+        {
+          nativeBuildInputs = prev.nativeBuildInputs or [] ++ [byteCompileLuaHook];
+        }
+        // lib.optionalAttrs (prev ? buildCommand) {
+          buildCommand = ''
+            ${prev.buildCommand}
+            runHook postFixup
+          '';
+        }
+    );
+
+  byteCompile = plugins: let
+    byteCompile = p:
+      (byteCompileLuaDrv p).overrideAttrs (
+        prev: lib.optionalAttrs (prev ? dependencies) {dependencies = map byteCompile prev.dependencies;}
+      );
+  in
+    map (p: p // {plugin = byteCompile p.plugin;}) plugins;
+
+  byteCompileVim = package:
+    pkgs.symlinkJoin {
+      name = "neovim-byte-compiled-${lib.getVersion package}";
+      paths = [package];
+      inherit (package) lua meta;
+      nativeBuildInputs = [byteCompileLuaHook];
+      postBuild =
+        # bash
+        ''
+          # Replace Nvim's binary symlink with a regular file,
+          # or Nvim will use original runtime directory
+          rm $out/bin/nvim
+          cp ${package}/bin/nvim $out/bin/nvim
+          runHook postFixup
+        '';
+    };
+}
diff --git a/nvim/default.nix b/nvim/default.nix
index ab10678..684b864 100644
--- a/nvim/default.nix
+++ b/nvim/default.nix
@@ -21,11 +21,12 @@ in
       }
 
       # TODO: make grammars optional
-      nvim-treesitter.withAllGrammars
+      # nvim-treesitter.withAllGrammars
       catppuccin-nvim
     ];
 
-    lsp = with pkgs; [
+    extraPackages = with pkgs; [
+      # lsp
       # see for helpers https://github.com/dundalek/lazy-lsp.nvim/blob/master/lua/lazy-lsp/servers.lua
       haskell-language-server
       rust-analyzer
@@ -43,9 +44,7 @@ in
       helm-ls
       zls
       lua-language-server
-    ];
 
-    extraPackages = with pkgs; [
       # Give access to gdbus for color-scheme detection (vim-lumen).
       glib
     ];
diff --git a/nvim/mknvim.nix b/nvim/mknvim.nix
index bec96d3..f3b916c 100644
--- a/nvim/mknvim.nix
+++ b/nvim/mknvim.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
 {
   pkgs,
   lib,
-  stdenv,
   ...
 }: {
   package ? pkgs.neovim,
   config,
   plugins ? [],
   extraPackages ? [],
-  lsp ? [],
   extraLuaPackages ? p: [],
   extraPython3Packages ? p: [],
   withPython3 ? false,
@@ -34,18 +32,28 @@
       ))
     plugins;
 
-  externalPackages = extraPackages ++ lsp;
-in
-  pkgs.wrapNeovimUnstable package {
-    # maybe use true here?
-    autoconfigure = false;
-    autowrapRuntimeDeps = false;
+  initLua =
+    # lua
+    ''
+      vim.opt.rtp:remove(vim.fn.stdpath('config'))              -- ~/.config/nvim
+      vim.opt.rtp:remove(vim.fn.stdpath('config') .. "/after")  -- ~/.config/nvim/after
+      vim.opt.rtp:prepend('${config}')
+      vim.opt.rtp:prepend('${config}/after')
 
-    plugins = normalizePlugins plugins;
+      ${builtins.readFile (config + "/init.lua")}
+    '';
+
+  builder = (import ./bytecompile.nix) {inherit pkgs lib;};
+
+  nvim = builder.byteCompileVim package;
+in
+  pkgs.wrapNeovimUnstable nvim {
+    plugins = builder.byteCompile (normalizePlugins plugins);
 
     wrapRc = false;
     wrapperArgs = builtins.concatStringsSep " " [
-      (lib.optionals (externalPackages != []) ''--prefix PATH : "${lib.makeBinPath externalPackages}"'')
+      (lib.optionals (extraPackages != []) ''--prefix PATH : "${lib.makeBinPath extraPackages}"'')
+      ''--add-flags "-u ${builder.writeByteCompiledLua "init.lua" initLua}"''
     ];
 
     inherit withPython3 withNodeJs withPerl withRuby extraPython3Packages extraLuaPackages;