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I think that would be an uphill battle and very hard to succeed financially. I agree with you regarding the API being a mess, but pandas is so heavily entrenche

I think that would be an uphill battle and very hard to succeed financially. I agree with you regarding the API being a mess, but pandas is so heavily entrenched in the datascience space (in Python land) that it is almost impossible for a free replacement to take over, let a lone a paid library.

whitehouse3 7y ago
And pandas is valuable particularly because it has so many users. I'd worry that a paid product would stagnate over time, or change to meet the needs of its largest customers, leaving me behind. I go out of my way to support open source projects. Closed source would be a much harder sell.