Best setup for dev and ML work on a new MacBook Air M2 16GB

Question

I have a new personal Mac - MacBook Air M2. For side projects that cover ML, web scraping and development, what do you recommend for setup? Should I use Homebrew, Anaconda? Trying to avoid package management pain later.

bradknowles · Accepted Answer

Yes. There will be pain. Especially package dependency hell.
There are OS-specific solutions that will partially help.
There are language specific solutions that will partially help.
Each solution that partially helps will probably also have some conflicts with the other solutions that partially help.

Best setup for dev and ML work on a new MacBook Air M2 16GB

I have a new personal Mac - MacBook Air M2. For side projects that cover ML, web scraping and development, what do you recommend for setup? Should I use Homebrew, Anaconda? Trying to avoid package management pain later.

Yes. There will be pain. Especially package dependency hell.There are OS-specific solutions that will partially help.There are language specific solutions that will partially help.Each solution that partially helps will probably also have some conflicts with the other solutions that partially help.