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Python Has Too Many Package Managers
Overview of Python's Package management ecosystem in 2024
Dependency resolves for large projects in poetry, combined with the generation of multiplatform lockfiles can take an obscene amount of time… especially when there is an actual conflict in the DAG. conda was created by some of the most prominent members of the Python open source community - Travis Oliphant (one of the creators of Numpy, Numba, and SciPy) and Peter Wang who was a developer of Bokeh. Most notably, the development is backed by Astral.sh, a company formed by Charlie Marsh and the creators of the ruff linter, a widely beloved tool that virtually supplanted all incumbants overnight when it was released in 2022.
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