The Rustacean Station Podcast

Polars with Ritchie Vink

Posted Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:59:00 +0000

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