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Plenty of packages still fail trying to spawn cmake, gcc and al.

UV does not solve all the hard problems.

Maybe switch to Pixi?

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I'm extremely satisfied with Pixi. It fixes almost all the issues I had with conda and mamba. It supports both conda and pypi (via uv) packages. I don't know if uv fixes pip's dependency management hell. I settled on conda packages because pip was such a mess.

Switch to who?

Google's not that broken yet: https://pixi.sh/latest/

That (main) page doesn't mention python once, so personally I was immediately wondering if this is an alternative to tools like uv or more generally tools like mise and asdf. It really isn't that clear so could you try to elaborate a bit?

Hah, your comment persuaded me to look at that page, and honestly I also can't tell what it even is. I think it's supposed to be an alternative to `mise` and `asdf`, but it mostly mentions various Python tools? And doesn't seem to have an overview of what's available to install through Pixi?

Then I clicked a link and got to https://prefix.dev/ ...

> pixi is a fast software package manager built on top of the existing conda ecosystem. Spins up development environments quickly on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Oh, build on top of conda. I am so going to stay the hell as far away from that as possible!

Google works for you too, friend.

In fact, I elaborated in my comment that not even the homepage of the project itself makes it clear. Why would google, an unrelated website make it any clearer...

The broader point you're missing is, HN commenters are not your personal AI summarizers.

You're literally on the Pixi website, and you know its name if you want to look for forums, feed it into Perplexity, etc.

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