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imcritictoday at 1:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

How is pixi better than uv?


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lr1970today at 1:37 PM

> How is pixi better than uv?

pixi is a general multi-languge, multi-platform package manager. I am using it now on my new macbook neo as a homebrew _replacement_. Yes, it goes beyond python and allows you to install git, jj, fzf, cmake, compilers, pandoc, and many more.

For python, pixi uses conda-forge and PyPI as package repos and relies on uv's rattler dependency resolver. pixi is as fast as uv (it uses fast code path from uv) but goes further beyond python wheels. For detail see [0] or google it :-)

[0] https://pixi.prefix.dev/latest/

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nilslindemanntoday at 1:51 PM

They are all anachronisms, as they have no GUIs, just commands to be typed into a REPL.