[0xcafefood]

Do people bash pandas? If so, it reminds me of Bjarne's quip that the two types of programming languages are the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

[hodapp]

The creator of Pandas even bashes it: https://wesmckinney.com/blog/apache-arrow-pandas-internals/

[imtringued]

He missed talking about the poor extensibility of pandas. It's missing some pretty obvious primitives to implement your own operators without whipping out slow for loops and appending to lists manually.

[fud101]

have these 'improvements' been backported to pandas now? i would expect it to close the gap over time.

[postexitus]

polars people do - although I wouldn't call polars something that nobody uses.

[ayhanfuat]

I also use polars in new projects. I think Wes McKinney also uses it. If I remember correctly I saw him commenting on some polars memory related issues on GitHub. But a good chunk of polars' success can be attributed to Arrow which McKinney co-created. All the gripes people have with pandas, he had them too and built something powerful to overcome those.

[rlh2]

People also love to hate R but data.table is light years better than pandas in my view