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

CreditsIntro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma