hi everyone! any opinions on what's the best way to set up a Python development environment on Mac? I ran a poll on social media and folks recommended: • avoiding Xcode ❌ (only useful to develop software for iOS and macOS) • avoiding using Homebrew's Python ❌ (because uncontrolled upgrades break virtual environments) • trying out pyenv (but I'm not a fan of compiling every version from source and "polluting" the shell with shims) • downloading Python

.dmg

installers directly from

<http://python.org|python.org>

(even though it's not very efficient) • using `conda`/`mamba`/`micromamba` (the one I'm more inclined to) thoughts?

you need XCode for some of the C++ stuff behind the scenes

Also if you want to use containers the firm wants you to use Rancher desktop since it hasn’t paid the Docker licence

uh that's good to know

ah i didn’t know that about the diff

I find Mamba works best, or you could try out pyenv (heard good things about that)

I favour `conda`/`mamba`/`micromamba` as well. I always experience locking issues when using Poetry with PyTorch, whereas

mamba

/`micromamba` always seem to resolve the deep learning frameworks properly. I’ve recently been using

conda-lock

for reproducible builds, which I’m also quite impressed with.