Yes and no, its not replacing the reason why pandas was popular ie data scientists, but it a full replacement of its pipeline usage, And I would saw also beating out spark
> its not replacing the reason why pandas was popular ie data scientists
Why not? Our data science team uses it exclusively.
A lot of our came from non cs backgrounds with a lot paper writing, pandas and numpy makes sense to them, its like writing Latex for them, polars is not. Its changing recently as we move towards more AI code but thats how/why things used to be.