In general, it is a package manager which supports different environments. It is similar to pipenv, but existed before. I believe there are still some differenc

In general, it is a package manager which supports different environments. It is similar to pipenv, but existed before. I believe there are still some differences, for instance conda is language agnostic, and it particularly was useful for data science where you would want the compiled version of certain dependencies (eg. MKL) for performance reasons. This SO answer seems like a good overview: https://stackoverflow.com/q/20994716/1060781 https://stackoverflow.com/q/20994716/1060781