diff --git a/.config/nvim/lua/coding.lua b/.config/nvim/lua/coding.lua
index f82f461..8a87d88 100644
--- a/.config/nvim/lua/coding.lua
+++ b/.config/nvim/lua/coding.lua
@@ -29,10 +29,5 @@ vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('FileType', {
 
 packer.use {
     'https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo-syntax',
-    requires = { 'https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic' },
-    config = function()
-        -- vim.g.syntastic_ebuild_checkers = { 'pkgcheck' }
-        vim.g.syntastic_sh_checkers = { 'sh', 'checkbashisms' }
-    end,
     ft = 'ebuild'
 }
diff --git a/.config/nvim/lua/plugins.lua b/.config/nvim/lua/plugins.lua
index 8bc6859..cd133ec 100644
--- a/.config/nvim/lua/plugins.lua
+++ b/.config/nvim/lua/plugins.lua
@@ -17,20 +17,6 @@ packer.use {
         require('nvim-treesitter.install').update({ with_sync = true })
     end
 }
-packer.use {
-    'https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic',
-    config = function()
-	local sl = vim.o.statusline
-        sl = sl .. '%#warningmsg#'
-        sl = sl .. '%{SyntasticStatuslineFlag()}'
-        sl = sl .. '%*'
-
-        vim.g.syntastic_always_populate_loc_list = 1
-        vim.g.syntastic_auto_loc_list = 1
-        vim.g.syntastic_check_on_open = 1
-        vim.g.syntastic_check_on_wq = 0
-    end
-}
 
 -- compile and install new plugins when lua files in this dir are written
 vim.cmd([[