I was excited for Spack and used it for some small packages, but it didn’t have a proper binary artifacts then. Ended up settling on conda-forge and it’s okay.

I was excited for Spack and used it for some small packages, but it didn’t have a proper binary artifacts then. Ended up settling on conda-forge and it’s okay. If I was doing a large scientific computing project today, I’d probably reach for bazel with some conda rules hooked up to conda-forge to set up third party packages.