Since I'm planning on using Python in the near future, I thought I'd see how things have changed in terms on environment management. Conda lends support for anaconda / miniconda - a virtualenv replacement and then some. Envrc takes care of direnv support - a way to automatically set up your environment when you change into a directory. Matching blog post (which includes configuration file info): https://cestlaz.github.io/posts/using-emacs-82-conda-direnv