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prefix.dev – blazing fast package management

At prefix.dev we are commited to a great developer experience, fast and reproducible software environments and speedy software package management that gets you and your colleagues ready to develop right away!

We are the people behind the succesful mamba package manager. Mamba handles packages for Python, C, C++, Fortran, Ruby and many more programming languages – at prefix.dev we are commited to take what we've learned and improve on that.

Our main projects are:

  • pixi: The package and workflow manager that allows users to create and manage projects in a modern way while maintaining a familiar feel. It supports both the conda and pypi ecosystems.
  • rattler-build: The conda-package builder, as a replacement for conda-build and boa, to significantly speed up conda package creation.
  • rattler: Rust crates to work with the Conda ecosystem. (conda is python and mamba is C++)
  • prefix.dev: The fast conda package index, and private channel hosting server.

We stand for:

  • Package management should be cross-platform – we support Linux, macOS and Windows and WebAssembly natively.
  • Ship binary packages - Shipping packages as source to then compile is a way to slow down users of your code, we make building binary packages as easy as possible so you only build them once!
  • We write our code in Rust, because it is extremely developer friendly, perfect for our use case (low level, high computational load), cross platoform, and it has an amazing open source community which provides tons of great libraries like Serde, Miette, Reqwest, etc.

We collaborate with the open source conda-forge package distribution that ships many tens of thousands of software packages for data science, machine learning. You can browse all available packages on prefix.dev! If you are missing a package, do not hesitate to reach out to us via email and we can help.

For more, read our blog posts.

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  1. pixi pixi Public

    Powerful system-level package manager for Linux, macOS and Windows written in Rust – building on top of the Conda ecosystem.

    Rust 6.8k 494

  2. rattler-build rattler-build Public

    rattler-build is a universal Conda package builder for Windows, macOS and Linux (like conda-build but faster)

    Rust 357 119

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  • pixi Public

    Powerful system-level package manager for Linux, macOS and Windows written in Rust – building on top of the Conda ecosystem.

    prefix-dev/pixi’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 6,829 BSD-3-Clause 494 608 (32 issues need help) 89 Updated Apr 14, 2026
  • pixi-gui Public
    prefix-dev/pixi-gui’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 24 2 6 3 Updated Apr 14, 2026
  • parselmouth Public
    prefix-dev/parselmouth’s past year of commit activity
    Python 21 BSD-3-Clause 7 7 6 Updated Apr 14, 2026
  • winget-pkgs Public Forked from microsoft/winget-pkgs

    The Microsoft community Windows Package Manager manifest repository

    prefix-dev/winget-pkgs’s past year of commit activity
    0 MIT 6,816 0 0 Updated Apr 14, 2026
  • rattler-build Public

    rattler-build is a universal Conda package builder for Windows, macOS and Linux (like conda-build but faster)

    prefix-dev/rattler-build’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 357 BSD-3-Clause 119 125 (2 issues need help) 31 Updated Apr 14, 2026
  • rattler-build-action Public

    GitHub Action to build conda packages :octocat: 📦

    prefix-dev/rattler-build-action’s past year of commit activity
    21 BSD-3-Clause 4 4 2 Updated Apr 14, 2026
  • recipe-format Public
    prefix-dev/recipe-format’s past year of commit activity
    Python 11 BSD-3-Clause 14 7 6 Updated Apr 9, 2026
  • pixi-docker Public

    A docker image for the pixi package manager 🐳 📦

    prefix-dev/pixi-docker’s past year of commit activity
    Dockerfile 82 BSD-3-Clause 18 6 1 Updated Apr 8, 2026
  • resolvo Public

    Fast package resolver written in Rust (CDCL based SAT solving)

    prefix-dev/resolvo’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 212 BSD-3-Clause 27 12 (1 issue needs help) 5 Updated Apr 6, 2026
  • rattler-book Public

    A book and a simple lua package manager

    prefix-dev/rattler-book’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 6 1 0 1 Updated Apr 1, 2026