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Being in the data science community myself, I prefer straight venv + pip to conda. It’s simpler for me to manage errors. I only use conda when I have to.

• whalesalad 7y ago
  Yeah I don't know a single person who chooses to use conda.
  • kirubakaran 7y ago
    Hi whalesalad, good to meet you! Now that you know me, you can never say that again anymore :-) Although, tbf, I only use conda for my machine learning related projects. I've tried using pip for that but was at risk of massive hair loss.
  • analog31 7y ago
    In the scientific community, there is a widespread "just use anaconda" message. Many people spend their entire lives inside anaconda, and equate it with Python.
  • Daishiman 7y ago
    Conda is ideal if you need to support Windows environments with large, compiled scientific programming libraries.
    • heyoni 7y ago
      So it’s niche.
      • xapata 7y ago
        No. I used it for managing my Mac and Linux environments.
  • tcpekin 7y ago
    On the other hand, almost everyone I know who does scientific python in grad school loves miniconda...