Modern Polars: A comparison of the Polars and Pandas dataframe libraries - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34275818 - Jan 2023 (62 comments)
Also:
Polars: Fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29584698 - Dec 2021 (124 comments)
Polars: Rust DataFrames Based on Apache Arrow - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23768227 - July 2020 (1 comment)
If we'd have just given the team a locked down Data Studio/PowerBI report none of that would have happened. Encouraging people to peek under the hood can be a huge benefit.
Most people don't have large datasets (even many people who think they have large datasets). Some do, or require more complex supporting libraries, and I get that Ruby then often isn't practical for them, and that's fine.
But it's nice to know I now have one more option reducing my need to consider another language.
I'd like to see spark bindings first though before I would seriously consider it.
https://github.com/ondra-m/ruby-spark
Hasn't been updated in a long time - no idea if that's because it's complete enough or if it's been abandoned, as I don't use Spark so I haven't tested this gem myself.
