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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

    Package management made easy

    Rust 6.2k 421

  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 340 108

Repositories

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  • pixi Public

    Package management made easy

    prefix-dev/pixi’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 6,242 BSD-3-Clause 421 555 (25 issues need help) 57 Updated Jan 28, 2026
  • parselmouth Public
    prefix-dev/parselmouth’s past year of commit activity
    Python 21 BSD-3-Clause 7 7 5 Updated Jan 28, 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
    PowerShell 0 MIT 6,086 0 0 Updated Jan 28, 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 340 BSD-3-Clause 108 173 (4 issues need help) 30 Updated Jan 28, 2026
  • pixi-docker Public

    A docker image for the pixi package manager 🐳 📦

    prefix-dev/pixi-docker’s past year of commit activity
    Dockerfile 79 BSD-3-Clause 15 6 1 Updated Jan 28, 2026
  • setup-pixi Public

    GitHub Action to set up pixi :octocat: 📦

    prefix-dev/setup-pixi’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 75 BSD-3-Clause 21 9 (1 issue needs help) 6 Updated Jan 28, 2026
  • sigstore-rust Public

    Sigstore implemented in Rust for Github v0.3 bundles

    prefix-dev/sigstore-rust’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 4 BSD-3-Clause 2 2 5 Updated Jan 27, 2026
  • pixi-gui Public
    prefix-dev/pixi-gui’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 1 2 1 4 Updated Jan 26, 2026
  • resolvo Public

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

    prefix-dev/resolvo’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 206 BSD-3-Clause 26 12 (1 issue needs help) 6 Updated Jan 26, 2026
  • siglog Public

    Rust implementation of a transparency log: Merkle tree backed by OpenDAL (FS, S3, ...) and sea-orm database (SQLite, Postgres, ...)

    prefix-dev/siglog’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 1 BSD-3-Clause 0 0 0 Updated Jan 26, 2026