Having a bit of a look at the docs^1, I don't really see it as "yet another arrays package". The API exposes generalized table/array operations, and a subset of

Having a bit of a look at the docs^1, I don't really see it as "yet another arrays package". The API exposes generalized table/array operations, and a subset of those features can be implemented using NumPy's ndarrays. If the interface is clean, then I don't think adoption will be an issue: there simply isn't anything else that does this. You are absolutely right that both of these projects are extremely ambitious, but, given the $3 mil grant, I can't help but be optimistic. 1 http://blaze.pydata.org/docs/overview.html#blaze-is-a-generalization-of-numpy http://blaze.pydata.org/docs/overview.html#blaze-is-a-genera...