return {
  "williamboman/mason.nvim",
  dependencies = {
    "williamboman/mason-lspconfig.nvim",
    "WhoIsSethDaniel/mason-tool-installer.nvim",
  },
  config = function()
    --import mason
    local mason = require("mason")
    -- import mason-lspconfig
    local mason_lspconfig = require("mason-lspconfig")

    local mason_tool_installer = require("mason-tool-installer")

    -- enable mason and configure icons
    mason.setup({
      ui = {
        icons = {
          package_installed = "",
          package_pending = "",
          package_uninstalled = "",
        },
      },
    })
    mason_lspconfig.setup({
      -- list of servers for mason to install
      ensure_installed = {
        "bashls",
        "cssls",
        "diagnosticls",
        "dockerls",
        "docker_compose_language_service",
        "gopls",
        "lua_ls",
        "texlab",
        "zk",
        "pyright",
        "r_language_server",
        "sqls",
      },
      -- auto-install configured servers (with lspconfig)
      automatic_installation = true, -- not the same as ensure_installed
    })

    mason_tool_installer.setup({
      ensure_installed = {
        "mutt-language-server",
        "emmet-ls",
        -- Linters:
        "prettier",
        "bibtex-tidy",
        "goimports",
        "gci",
        "golines",
        "shfmt",
        "latexindent",
        "sql-formatter",
        "isort",
        "black",
        "yamlfix",
        "stylua",
        -- Formatters:
        "stylelint",
        "markdownlint",
        "pylint",
        "golangci-lint",
        "shellcheck",
      },
    })

  end,
}