diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 0114e7c..d4c24f8 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -55,3 +55,6 @@
 [submodule "start/vim-toml"]
 	path = start/vim-toml
 	url = https://github.com/cespare/vim-toml
+[submodule "start/ale"]
+	path = start/ale
+	url = https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale
diff --git a/start/ale b/start/ale
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..3e2abe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/start/ale
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 3e2abe3f25493af63af91a6013447e378e09f6ec