UBubj·Dec 8, 2022Submission
Mamba: A Drop-In Replacement for Conda Written in C++
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5 sourcesGreat writeup. Minor comment about the portion of the post mentioning Conda being glacially slow: Mamba [1] is a much better drop-in replacement written in C++. Not only is it significantly faster, but error messages are much more sane and helpful.
That being said, I do agree that Pkg.jl is much more sleek and modern than Conda/Mamba.
[1]: https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba
In What's Great about Julia?Try using mamba (https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba)
We ran into many unsolvable or 30m+ solvable envs with conda that mamba handled quickly.
The underlying solver can be used with conda directly as well, but I have not done that (https://www.anaconda.com/blog/a-faster-conda-for-a-growing-c...)
In Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packagingMamba – A Fast Replacement for Conda
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