"Pirate for it" was probably the wrong phrase. "Plan for it" was probably what you were thinking when your fingers did something else.
This is huge. Unfortunately, as you indicated, there's no standard tool for this and new ones are being added to the mix. Many in the science feilds are pushed towards Conda but I'm not sure it's the best option. However, Conda will be infinitely better than not using anything to manage environments and dependencies.
Do you want to work as a developer? Or do you want to want to continue with your research and analysis? If you're only writing code for your own purposes, I don't know why it matters if it's conventional.
Maybe https://www.senfcall.de/en/
I haven't looked into all of its features but it's worth looking at.
I simply blocked it. I also blocked it on communities I moderate. It gives bad instructions for many situations. A non-preachy threadiverse link bot would be infinitely more useful.
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