> And what's the alternative, Excel? Take this with a grain of salt from someone who needs data manipulation occasionally every now and then (as opposed to bei

> And what's the alternative, Excel? Take this with a grain of salt from someone who needs data manipulation occasionally every now and then (as opposed to being a full time number-cruncher, data-scientist, statistician etc.), using krangl[1] for Kotlin has been a great experience. I was drawn to this library because I use Kotlin in my dayjob for backend development, but I love how well Kotlin's succinct syntax & features like extension functions lends itself to data transformation & ETL kind of use cases. Also it doesn't hurt that JVM has a plethora of libraries available for things like DB access, plotting, etc. I am sure that Pandas has many features I am unaware of, and for a lot of people the high-ish startup time can be a deterrant, but for most of my day to day data munging the combination of jbang, krangl & kravis has been a pretty good fit. [1] https://github.com/holgerbrandl/krangl https://github.com/holgerbrandl/krangl