<zimoun>Oh dear, why conda is so popular with bioinfo folks? Damned! Why?! <rekado>conda keeps intruding in my perfect little world <rekado>there must be something that makes people ditch everything and use conda again and again. <rekado>but maybe it’s futile to look for a reason. After all if a blog post says to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and run a couple of odd commands people do that without question. <rekado>so I think it’s popular because it is already popular (network effect), and it is already popular because popular tools advertise the use of conda. <rekado>ease of use or features don’t really factor into it as long as a certain threshold is cleared. <civodul>it was the first tool to solve some deployment problems for a category of users <civodul>and now it sticks around: network effect, propaganda, prolly govt support in some cases, etc. <civodul>(and it still solves problems "well enough") ***ds815 is now known as dstolfa