diff --git a/nvim/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/treesitter.lua b/nvim/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/treesitter.lua
index e543e83..91791b5 100644
--- a/nvim/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/treesitter.lua
+++ b/nvim/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/treesitter.lua
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ return {
 		"nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter",
 		build = ":TSUpdate",
 		config = function()
-			local rainbow = require("ts-rainbow")
 			require("nvim-treesitter.configs").setup({
 				-- one of "all", "maintained" (parsers with maintainers), or a list of languages
 				ensure_installed = "all",
@@ -28,12 +27,6 @@ return {
 				indent = { enable = true },
 				autotag = { enable = true },
 
-				-- enable rainbow brackets, needs p00f/nvim-ts-rainbow
-				rainbow = {
-					enable = true,
-					strategy = { rainbow.strategy.global },
-				},
-
 				-- allows using . and ; to target treesitter branches
 				textsubjects = {
 					enable = true,
@@ -43,9 +36,9 @@ return {
 					},
 				},
 
-                endwise = {
-                    enable = true
-                }
+				endwise = {
+					enable = true,
+				},
 			})
 
 			-- for improved commentstrings, needs corresponding plugin
@@ -87,11 +80,9 @@ return {
 			"TSUpdateSync",
 		},
 
-		-- rainbow brackets using treesitter
 		-- show current cursor context at top of buffer
 		-- improves commenting plugin above by using ts
 		dependencies = {
-			"https://gitlab.com/HiPhish/nvim-ts-rainbow2.git",
 			{ "romgrk/nvim-treesitter-context", config = true },
 			"JoosepAlviste/nvim-ts-context-commentstring",
 			"RRethy/nvim-treesitter-textsubjects",
@@ -99,5 +90,13 @@ return {
 			"RRethy/nvim-treesitter-endwise",
 		},
 	},
+	-- rainbow brackets using treesitter
+	{
+		"https://gitlab.com/HiPhish/rainbow-delimiters.nvim",
+		lazy = false,
+		event = { "BufReadPost", "BufNewFile"},
+		config = function()
+			require("rainbow-delimiters.setup").setup({})
+		end,
+	},
 }
-