Conda

10 engineers on Hacker News describe using Conda first-hand: 5 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.

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10first-hand users
5in production
endorse 5mixed 0regret 2uses, no opinion

“As someone with admittedly no formal CS education, I've been using conda for all of my grad school and never managed to break it.”

endorse · personal · alsodumb · 2024-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“a major GIS library broke on conda and stayed that way for months so we threw in the towel”

regret · production · jjoonathan · 2022-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“A lot of conda packages are broken... Since I'm tired of ABI and runtime linking errors, I often just install from source.”

regret · production · stochastic_monk · 2018-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using conda since ~4 years now, and every single complaint lodged against any of the other package managers was never an issue with conda”

endorse · personal · 4 yr · beagle3 · 2018-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The 'miniconda' installer variant is something I even use in production when on the same server I need to run microservices”

endorse · production · nnq · 2017-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We would be absolutely stuck w/o conda's environment manager -- I can make sure we use exactly the same versions of the packages across our whole team.”

endorse · production · jason_s · 2015-07-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using it in passing for my side and small projects... my experience with it so far has been... ideal”

endorse · personal · kyzyl · 2013-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“That's pretty much how I've done the Conda transition too.”

neutral · production · nerdponx · 2021-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using conda for quite some time, maybe version 0, I forget, and this has never happened to me.”

neutral · personal · xapata · 2020-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Rest of my time is splitted between Firefox, Conda and Office.”

neutral · personal · Amygaz · 2018-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?