PostPandas Should Go Extinct

Pandas Should Go Extinct Eddie Atkinson makes the case that many teams move from Pandas to distributed systems too early, when single-machine tools like Polars and DuckDB can handle much larger analytical workloads with significantly better performance and memory efficiency in his benchmarks. He highlights lazy execution, multithreading, streaming, spill-to-disk, and Arrow interoperability as reasons these tools... https://eddie.codes/posts/pandas-should-go-extinct/