
Nov. 6, 2017
11:57 p.m.
Software Carpentry starts out with the Anaconda distribution, as it not only improves the cross-platform UX consistent situation, it also deals with the external binary dependency problem (at least for the core set of packages provided either natively or via conda-forge).
Yeah but the knowledge is not transposable. You can't understand a lot of tutorials that uses pip. Plus it has licences issues. And if somebody starts mixing conda and pip, it can results in strange things. I do use anaconda, but you can't rely solely on it.