Awesome Pixi

Pixi is a cross-platform, cross-language software development manager for reproducible environments and packages.

This is a curated list of awesome things related to Pixi.

Contents

• Learning
• Extensions
• IDE Support
• Projects using Pixi

Learning

Where can you learn about Pixi?

• Main Docs
• GitHub Repo
• Videos
  • Jean Golding Institute - Can others reproduce your conda results? Using pixi in a Python data analysis project.
  • Inspiring Computing - Pixi: Getting Started
  • Anaconda - Environment Management with Pixi
  • ROS with Pixi playlist - Playlist containing short videos to manage ROS environments with Pixi.
• Conference talks:
  • EuroPython 2025 - Unlocking Hidden Power of Conda with Pixi — Ruben Arts, Julian Hofer
  • SciPy 2025 - Reproducible Science Made Easy: Package Management with Pixi - Ruben Arts & Wolf Vollprecht
  • PyCon DE 2025 - Streamlining Python deployment with Pixi: A Perspective from production - Dennis Weyland
  • PyData Paris 2024 - Bridging the worlds: pixi reimplements pip and conda in Rust - Nichita Morcotilo
• Conference Workshops:
  • SciPy 2025 - Reproducible Machine Learning Workflows for Scientists with pixi - Arts, Feickert, & Kirkham

Example projects

• pixi-docker-chtc - Example configurations for using containerized Pixi environments with HTCondor and GPUs

Extensions

Community made tools and extensions, for documentation check here

• pixi-diff-to-markdown - Generate markdown summaries from pixi update.
• pixi-pack - Pack and unpack environments to/from a tarball.
• pixi-diff - Generate JSON diffs between lockfiles.
• pixi-inspect - Analyze a conda package and extracts metadata from its index.json.
• pixi-inject - Inject conda packages into an already existing conda prefix.
• pixi-outdated - Find outdated packages in an environment.

IDE Support

Tools to help you use Pixi in your favorite IDE.

• pixi-pycharm - Conda shim for PyCharm that proxies Pixi
• pixi-kernel - Jupyter kernels using Pixi for reproducible notebooks
• pixi-vscode - Visual Studio Code extension to manage Pixi environments

Projects using Pixi

• lfortran - A modern interactive compiler and runtime for Fortran.
• FreeCAD - FreeCAD is a general-purpose parametric 3D CAD modeler and a BIM software.

GPU Computing

• NVIDIA/numba-cuda - The CUDA target for Numba.
• modular/mojo-gpu-puzzles - A collection of GPU-accelerated puzzles implemented in Mojo.

Robotics

• ros2 - The Robot Operating System, is a meta operating system for robots.
• VSLAM-LAB - A Comprehensive Framework for Visual SLAM Systems and Datasets
• rerun - An open source SDK for logging, storing, querying, and visualizing multimodal and multi-rate data.

Deep Learning / Machine Learning

• VistaDream - Sampling multiview consistent images for single-view scene reconstruction.
• pfizer-opensource/bigwig-loader - A fast dataloader for bigwig files made for machine learning
• facebookresearch/momentum - A library for human kinematic motion and numerical optimization solvers to apply human motion

Data Science / Data Analysis

• SciPy - Scientific computing library for Python.
• MODFLOW6 - USGS Modular Hydrologic Model
• Bodo - High-Performance Python Compute Engine for Data and AI

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.