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Powerful system-level package manager for Linux, macOS and Windows written in Rust – building on top of the Conda ecosystem.

14 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 1 story, 13 comments · first 2023-10-19 · latest 2026-03-22

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  1. +1 for Conda. I also have to mention pixi ( https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi ) which kinda is a uv for the Conda ecosystem. Highly recommend!
    comment by roflcopter69 · 2026-03-22 · in Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty
  2. …[3] https://download.projectbluefin.io/bluefin-lts-arm64.iso-CHE... [4] https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi
    comment by miles · 2025-03-31 · in Aurora: Maintenance-free, reliable and fast OS, stable like a Chromebook
  3. Have you checked out https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi ? It's built by the folks who developed Mamba (a faster Conda implementation). It supports PyPI dependencies using UV, offers first-class support for multi-envs and lockfiles, and can…
    comment by be7a · 2025-03-17 · in uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users
  4. …nicer integration with the conda ecosystem. Also uses uv under the hood so speed is comparable. https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi
    comment by camel_Snake · 2024-12-14 · in Uv, a fast Python package and project manager
  5. …If you depend on both conda and standard Python packaging (e.g. PyPI.org) you can use Pixi: https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi?tab=readme-ov-file#pixi-p... . Pixi attempts to bridge the conda world and the Python package world, so it's…
    comment by notatallshaw · 2024-09-30 · in Generate pip requirements.txt file based on imports of any project
  6. …worth, you can install pixi with Cargo. The current invocation is: cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi.git pixi I try new versions of pixi from time to time because I have a project that depends on LAVIS and…
    comment by networked · 2024-07-09 · in Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
  7. prefix-dev/pixi is a successor to Mamba and Conda which wraps libsolv like dnf. https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi OpenSUSE/libsolv: https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv OpenSUSE/zypper may have wrapped or may still wrap libsolv? TIL…
    comment by westurner · 2024-05-15 · in The new APT 3.0 solver
  8. …repos are: prefix.dev's own hosting, anaconda.org, artifactory or a self-hosted server. -- 1: https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi/blob/main/examples/cpp-sd... 2: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg 3: https://prefix-dev.github.io/rattler-buil…
    comment by emmanueloga_ · 2024-05-05 · in Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua
  9. > I recently started using https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi for Python projects Why is it based on the Conda ecosystem? Do you happen to know? I assume it's for portability, but that sounds heavy.
    comment by jdsalaro · 2024-04-28 · in Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments
  10. I recently started using https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi for Python projects. I really love it so far, but this tool looks a bit more mature, which makes sense considering pixi is relatively new.
    comment by quickslowdown · 2024-04-28 · in Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments
  11. Isn't this basically what pixi wants to be? Wouldn't it be better to work together? https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi/
    comment by SushiHippie · 2024-02-15 · in Uv: Python packaging in Rust
  12. …"the right thing". Also keep an eye on the `pixi` tool which got some visibility here recently: https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi
    comment by ramses0 · 2023-10-24 · in Bookworm – the new version of Raspberry Pi OS
  13. https://github.com/mamba-org/rattler : > Rattler: Rust crates for fast handling of conda packages https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi : > https://pixi.sh/
    comment by westurner · 2023-10-19 · in Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages