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I think it's worth giving some credit to prior art here. Polars was heavily inspired by the "Spark SQL" API, and Pandas by R data frames. I disagree that Panda
by nerdponx 2y ago
I think it's worth giving some credit to prior art here. Polars was heavily inspired by the "Spark SQL" API, and Pandas by R data frames.
I disagree that Pandas is no longer state of the art: its interface is optimized for a different use case compared to Polars.
- disgruntledphd2 2y agoI think a lot of the weirdness in pandas comes from firstly the original focus on time series, and secondly the attempt to make logical indexing work like it did in R. I'm not a big fan of the pandas API but it's a super useful tool nonetheless.