diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 8f2cc2c..544ab05 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "nvim/pack/colors/start/molokai"]
 	path = nvim/pack/colors/start/molokai
 	url = https://github.com/tomasr/molokai.git
-[submodule "nvim/pack/syntaxes/start/ale"]
-	path = nvim/pack/syntaxes/start/ale
-	url = https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale.git
 [submodule "nvim/pack/syntaxes/start/vim-commentary"]
 	path = nvim/pack/syntaxes/start/vim-commentary
 	url = https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary.git
diff --git a/nvim/pack/syntaxes/start/ale b/nvim/pack/syntaxes/start/ale
deleted file mode 160000
index 87e079a..0000000
--- a/nvim/pack/syntaxes/start/ale
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 87e079a9b25ebf5818b8451874ce2a8bd614226f