2025-02-14-Why-are-there-so-many-Python-package-managers/

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2025-02-14-Why-are-there-so-many-Python-package-managers/

Neither the forest NOR the trees

https://n8layman.github.io/2025-02-14-Why-are-there-so-many-Python-package-managers/

[n8layman]

The fact that it's similar to cargo for rust and yarn for Node.js is also a quite nice. It's nice to know that effort spent adopting a pixi based workflow would set me up for other languages.

[n8layman]

Support for r universe might be coming soon!

prefix-dev/pixi#1543

[n8layman]

In VScode it's also possible to specify the R language version using pixi. That way each workspace could use whatever version of R the project was developed in. It looks like this might be coming to Positron as well.

posit-dev/positron#2659 (comment)