As sibling elaborated, mamba just accelerates the NP-hard step of resolving conflicts using mathy SAT-solver methods. Also it has a much prettier cli/tui. I wou

As sibling elaborated, mamba just accelerates the NP-hard step of resolving conflicts using mathy SAT-solver methods. Also it has a much prettier cli/tui. I would be surprised if conda doesn't eventually merge the project, but you can already use it as an optional/experimental backend on the official conda distro. Haven't followed it at all but I suspect the folks who developed it wanted to use it right away so they forked the project, while the people who maintain conda are more conservative since it's critical infrastructure for ${large_number} of orgs.