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
• Build Backends
• IDE Support
• Projects using Pixi
• Contribute

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:
  • ROSCON 2025 - Solving ROS package management with Pixi and RoboStack - Ruben Arts.
  • CppCon 2025 - Cross-Platform Package Management for Modern C++ Development with Pixi - Ruben Arts.
  • 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.
• copier-template-python-open-source - Copier Template for Python projects using Pixi.

Extensions

Community made tools and extensions, documentation.

• pixi-diff-to-markdown - Generate markdown summaries from pixi update.
• pixi-pack && pixi-unpack - Pack Pixi 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• pixi-outdated - Find outdated packages in an environment.
• pixi-to-conda-lock - Convert Pixi lockfiles to conda-lock format.
• pixi-ros - Initialize a Pixi workspace from a ROS workspace.
• pixi-browse - Browse conda packages interactively.
• pixi-skills - Manage coding agent skills with Pixi.
• pixi-install-to-prefix - Install Pixi environments to an arbitrary prefix.
• pixi-lock action - GitHub Actions to easily cache and restore lock files generated in CI.
• pixi-containerize - Containerize your workspace with a single command.

Build Backends

Pixi build backends for building conda packages with pixi build, documentation.

• pixi-build-python - Build backend for Python projects.
• pixi-build-cmake - Build backend for CMake projects.
• pixi-build-rust - Build backend for Rust projects.
• pixi-build-r - Build backend for R packages.
• pixi-build-mojo - Build backend for Mojo projects.
• pixi-build-rattler-build - Build backend using rattler-build.
• pixi-build-ros - Build backend for ROS packages.

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 - 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.
• cuda-python - CUDA Python bindings for Python, providing access to NVIDIA's CUDA parallel computing platform.

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.
• kornia - Geometric Computer Vision Library for Spatial AI.

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.
• Xarray - N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python.

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.