mamba is (nominally) a drop-in replacement for Conda's CLI and dependency resolver. I've been using it for a couple of months and it really does run an order of

mamba is (nominally) a drop-in replacement for Conda's CLI and dependency resolver. I've been using it for a couple of months and it really does run an order of magnitude faster for anything that requires dependency resolution. You'll still want to keep ana/miniconda around, but it goes to show how some of Conda's performance woes are entirely self-inflicted.