diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f6a58522b7..c9f6617c0a 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -358,7 +358,6 @@ name = "config"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "errors",
- "lazy_static",
  "libs",
  "serde",
  "utils",
diff --git a/components/config/Cargo.toml b/components/config/Cargo.toml
index 00f82e94d7..d7ef4029b6 100644
--- a/components/config/Cargo.toml
+++ b/components/config/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ include = ["src/**/*"]
 
 [dependencies]
 serde = {version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
-# TODO: remove me if we can get highlight to work with once_cell
-lazy_static = "1"
 
 errors = { path = "../errors" }
 utils = { path = "../utils" }
diff --git a/components/config/src/highlighting.rs b/components/config/src/highlighting.rs
index ece852942d..c51a74982e 100644
--- a/components/config/src/highlighting.rs
+++ b/components/config/src/highlighting.rs
@@ -1,23 +1,18 @@
-use lazy_static::lazy_static;
 use libs::syntect::dumps::from_binary;
 use libs::syntect::highlighting::{Theme, ThemeSet};
 use libs::syntect::html::ClassStyle;
 use libs::syntect::parsing::{SyntaxReference, SyntaxSet};
+use libs::once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 
 use crate::config::Config;
 
 pub const CLASS_STYLE: ClassStyle = ClassStyle::SpacedPrefixed { prefix: "z-" };
 
-// TODO: replace with once_cell. I was getting malloc error with sync::Lazy
-lazy_static! {
-    pub static ref SYNTAX_SET: SyntaxSet = {
-        let ss: SyntaxSet =
-            from_binary(include_bytes!("../../../sublime/syntaxes/newlines.packdump"));
-        ss
-    };
-    pub static ref THEME_SET: ThemeSet =
-        from_binary(include_bytes!("../../../sublime/themes/all.themedump"));
-}
+pub static SYNTAX_SET: Lazy<SyntaxSet> =
+    Lazy::new(|| from_binary(include_bytes!("../../../sublime/syntaxes/newlines.packdump")));
+
+pub static THEME_SET: Lazy<ThemeSet> =
+    Lazy::new(|| from_binary(include_bytes!("../../../sublime/themes/all.themedump")));
 
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub enum HighlightSource {