> Now I'm experimenting with mamba ("fast conda") and that's pretty good.
+1 for this. I really like Conda because I use a lot of packages that cannot be installed with only pip (E.g. GDAL). Conda would sometimes take 10 minutes to make an environment.
Mamba has been an absolute game changer. It has rewritten parts of Conda in C++ and added multithreading, so every part of the process - the solving, download, and the extraction - is all Lightning quick in comparison. A 10 minute process with Conda can now take 2.5 mins with Mamba. It also helps that it is also prettier to look at!
+1 for this. I really like Conda because I use a lot of packages that cannot be installed with only pip (E.g. GDAL). Conda would sometimes take 10 minutes to make an environment.
Mamba has been an absolute game changer. It has rewritten parts of Conda in C++ and added multithreading, so every part of the process - the solving, download, and the extraction - is all Lightning quick in comparison. A 10 minute process with Conda can now take 2.5 mins with Mamba. It also helps that it is also prettier to look at!