These days there are a lot of alternatives in every field. It is a good thing as long as they don’t become “too much” and they don’t over-fragment people into too tiny user bases. Take this:

Pixi

Pixi is a fast, modern, and reproducible package management tool for developers of all backgrounds

It looks good, but it has already has at least 4 major competitor: conda, pip, poetry and uv. What will win?