Jeroen Janssens and I joined Joe Reis to talk about all things Polars: where it came from, why it is worth switching to, and how we approached writing the book.
Topics covered:
- Evolution of Polars: From a side project at Xomnia to a widely adopted DataFrame library.
- Why switch from Pandas: The performance and ergonomics case for Polars in real data pipelines.
- Writing the book: How Jeroen and I structured the content and what was hardest to explain.
- Real-world adoption: What we have seen from teams migrating large codebases.