Allen Wyma talks with Ritchie Vink about his work on Polars, a DataFrame library written in Rust.

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Timestamps

[@00:00] - Meet Ritchie Vink - Creator of Polars
[@02:00] - What is a DataFrame?
[@05:19] - Arrow
[@07:26] - NumPy
[@11:31] - Polars vs Pandas
[@17:32] - Using Polars in app development
[@25:24] - Python and Rust docs
[@31:49] - Polars 1.0 release
[@35:21] - What keeps Ritchie working on Polars
[@37:27] - Growing Polars without bloat
[@39:57] - Closing discussions

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma

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