Re:Apache Arrow is 10 years old
by benrutter on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:21AM
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Yes (mostly) is the answer. You can use arrow as a backend, and I think with v3 (recently released) it's the default.
The harder thing to overcome is that pandas has historically had a pretty "say yes to things" culture. That's probably a huge part of its success, but it means there are now about 5 ways to add a column to a dataframe.
Adding support for arrow is a really big achievement, but shrinking an oversized api is even more ambitious.
The harder thing to overcome is that pandas has historically had a pretty "say yes to things" culture. That's probably a huge part of its success, but it means there are now about 5 ways to add a column to a dataframe.
Adding support for arrow is a really big achievement, but shrinking an oversized api is even more ambitious.