this is a blog for the Ibis project, directly from one of the main developers/maintainers of the project, about deprecating two (of 20+) backends the project su

this is a blog for the Ibis project, directly from one of the main developers/maintainers of the project, about deprecating two (of 20+) backends the project supports and giving the justification as a project, we're big on using the right tool for the job -- of course we often think that's Ibis. a lot of effort has been put into the ergonomics, taking learnings from pandas and dplyr and SQL and various other Python data projects the team has been instrumental in. if you weren't aware, the creator of pandas also created Ibis and the current lead developer (Phillip Cloud) was also very involved in pandas. we have plenty of other blogs and things on the documentation about the project's ergonomics and thoughts on data processing paradigms this specific blog isn't intended as "marketing speak" or to somehow be distasteful, it's intended to inform the Ibis community that we're deprecating a backend and justifying why