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An alternative (better or worse?) for conda when using Python are its own tools venv (virtual environment) and pip (package manager). Using them is mostly the same as with Conda conda, but as it is not language agnostic, their usage is not elaborated here (but here). Other languages, such as Rust, have their own package managers too, and they should be preferred over using Conda, since they most likely have the most recent versions of each package. Learning and using these is left as an exercise for the reader.
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