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Comment by esafak

11 hours ago

It does not use datafusion. https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/issues/6197

Yes, but why?

I mean, it's very clear that the projects have a lot in common, even if building one on top of another directly is not a good idea.

  • In the issue, polars' creator says it is to reduce dependencies:

       I don't want polars to depend on on the datafusion crate, that is a complexity that is not needed.