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Comment by v3ss0n

8 hours ago

Sounds too much like an advertisement. Also we need to watch out when diving into Polars . Polars is VC backed Opensource project with cloud offering , which may become an opencore project - we know how those goes.

> we know how those go

They get forked and stay open source? At least this is what happens to all the popular ones. You can't really un-open-source a project if users want to keep it open-source.

  • Depends on your definition of popular; plenty of examples where the business interests don't align well with open source.

I was also thinking that this comment looks like an AD. Pandas does not have any paid option and isn't made directly for profit.

  • To be fair, as someone who's fought pandas for many years I agree with basically everything they said. The API design for Polars is much, much more intuitive. It's a base R to dplyr level change.