I've been waiting for this release for years and I hoped for one thing and one thing only - for pandas to have a proper way of dealing with NULLs. And it does h

I've been waiting for this release for years and I hoped for one thing and one thing only - for pandas to have a proper way of dealing with NULLs. And it does have it... OPTIONALLY. It's great that the whole thing with extension arrays, custom types etc. has lead to this, but when the devs have, after 10+ years, the biggest chance for a backward incompatible change, this is the one to make. By making it optional, they are fixing it for the very few that know of its existence. I love pandas and a sizeable part of my career depended on it - and while I don't use it anymore (partly because of the NULLs), I wish it the best and I hope there will be a future release with this breaking change.