I could be misremembering but I seem to recall Wes McKinney saying in some talk that rather than rewrite Pandas to be Arrow-backed it will probably eventually b

I could be misremembering but I seem to recall Wes McKinney saying in some talk that rather than rewrite Pandas to be Arrow-backed it will probably eventually be replaced by newer Arrow-backed libraries some of which might have pandas-like apis. I think the idea was that pandas API is too large and the library too widely used for it to be practical to correct some of the design problems people have mentioned. He'd sketched out a vision for Pandas 2.0 at one point and I think he said that basically that would probably just be a new library. There's a lot of related discussion in this post on his blog. https://wesmckinney.com/blog/apache-arrow-pandas-internals/ https://wesmckinney.com/blog/apache-arrow-pandas-internals/