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I was thinking of testing it, but I have an irrational hatred for Conda.

You could use pixi instead, as a much nicer/saner alternative to conda: https://pixi.sh

Though in this particular case, you don't even need conda. You just need python 3.13 and a virtual environment. If you have uv installed, then it's even easier:

    git clone https://github.com/apple/ml-sharp.git
    cd ml-sharp
    uv sync
    uv run sharp

The hate is so irrational I can’t stop feeling that any project that even uses Conda HAS to be terrible. Like a chef that creates a recipe with shit as an ingredient. I could exchange the shit for sugar, but why bother, the chef is obviously insane. I’m really sorry if anyone that worked in this ever reads this. But Conda is just triggering me.

You can simply use a `uv` env instead?

You aren't being irrational.

Perhaps they lived outside of the kingdom, with an evil Stepmother who moved very slow, struggled with complex dependency collisions, and took up a bunch of unnecessary space? Such an experience could leave one very traumatized towards Conda, even though their real problems are the unresolved issues with their stepmother…

I hate pip, a million times worse than conda

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