[rogue7]

For conda there is mamba [0], a drop-in replacement that's really fast.

By the way, the creator of mamba started his own company at https://prefix.dev/

They want to essentially leverage the conda(-forge) infrastructure to build a new cross-platform, cross-language, cargo-like package manager: pixi

[0] https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba

[maxnoe]

Since last year, conda itself is actually using the mamba solver:

https://conda.org/blog/2023-11-06-conda-23-10-0-release/