[BrenBarn]

Nothing in the "article" seems to support the title. A lot of it is just about Python packaging in general, or about problems when mixing conda- and pip-installed packages.

In my experience conda is enormously superior to the standard Python packaging tools.

[Balinares]

If we're doing anecdotal evidence, then mine is that conda is by far the worst of the main Python packaging solutions in use. The absurd slowness and incompatibility with the entire rest of the Python world are only the visible tip of that iceberg. To the best of my ability to tell, conda largely exists to make up for endemic deficiencies in Windows software distribution toolchains (not Python specific) and sadly it's not even good at that either.

Mind you, glad it works for you. Warms my grey heart to know there's some balance in this universe. :)

[maxnoe]

The "absurd slowness" is gone since more than a year when it switched to using the libmamba solver.

[Balinares]

We must be living in slightly different universes. (I'm in the Berenstain one. Things are not amazing here TBH.) I'll grant you that libmamba is faster, but we're still talking "tragicomic, leaning tragic" which is not in fact a qualitative improvement because we're still in the territory of switching to a different task while resolution, eventually, occurs.

Another poster mentioned pixi elsewhere in the thread. I'll need to look into that.