I wrap Rust/CUDA programs in wheels. I've packaged arbitrary binaries in wheels, like software that's not directly related to Python. Can't say it works for everything, but I suspect so. You just run `maturn build`, then it can be installed with pip.

Conda is like Jquery or Bootstrap: It was necessarily before the official tools evolved. Now we don't need them any more, but they still are around for legacy reasons. You still need it for example, for some Moleular dynamics packages, but that's due to the package publishers choosing it.