For posterity, polars was a hobby product that started in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23768227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23768227 > A

For posterity, polars was a hobby product that started in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23768227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23768227 > As a hobby project I tried to build a DataFrame library in Rust. I got excited about the Apache Arrow project and wondered if this would succeed. > After two months of development it is faster than pandas for groupby's and left and inner joins. I still got some ideas for the join algorithms. Eventually I'd also want to add a query planner for lazy evaluation.