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I'm not a huge fan of conda either but your comment is not very constructive without either providing concrete examples of what you mean, or explaining your 'co
by aldanor 6y ago
I'm not a huge fan of conda either but your comment is not very constructive without either providing concrete examples of what you mean, or explaining your 'complete insanity' claim. I don't personally see how helping newcomers easily maintain environments with versioned C libraries in them is vile or insane.
If you're just writing "a=b+c"-level Python scripts, or scrambling together tiny flask/django apps, or whatever else, you probably don't care indeed.
If you're doing/learning any kind of data-science-related stuff, that requires tons of C extensions and libraries. And many 'noobs' learn Python in order to use pandas/numpy/torch/whatever else is hot these days.
- rowanG077 6y agoYou are right. My comment is colored by the countless times I have tried conda and it was one of the worst experiences I have ever had with software. Of all the times I have tried conda only once was it as easy as following the guide they post. The other times it was completely broken. I also greatly dislikes that it pollutes your default environment. Imagine if every piece of software would do that.