I try to use polars each time I have to do some analysis where dataframes helps. So basically any time I'd reach for pandas, which isn't too often. So each time it's fairly "new". This makes me have a hard time believing everyone that is saying "Pandas but faster" has used Polars, because I can often write Pandas from memory.
There's enough subtle and breaking changes that it is a bit frustrating. I really think Polars would be much more popular if the learning curve wasn't so high. It wouldn't be so high if there were just good docs. I'm also confused why there's a split between "User Guide" and "Docs".
To all devs:
Your docs are incredibly important! They are not an afterthought. And dear god, don't treat them as an afterthought and then tell people opening issues to RTFM. It's totally okay to point people in the right direction without hostility. It even takes less energy! It's okay to have a bad day and apologize later too, you'll even get more respect! Your docs are just as important as your code, even if you don't agree with me, they are to everyone but you. Besides technical debt there is also design debt. If you're getting the same questions over and over, you probably have poor design or you've miscommunicated somewhere. You're not expected to be a pro at everything you do and that's okay, we're all learning.
This isn't about polars, but I'm sure I'm not the only one to experience main character devs. It makes me (and presumably others) not want to open issues on __any__ project, not just bad projects, and that's bad for the whole community (including me, because users find mistakes. And we know there's 2 types of software: those with bugs and those that no one uses). Stupid people are just wizards in training and you don't get more wizards without noobs.
There's enough subtle and breaking changes that it is a bit frustrating. I really think Polars would be much more popular if the learning curve wasn't so high. It wouldn't be so high if there were just good docs. I'm also confused why there's a split between "User Guide" and "Docs".
To all devs:
Your docs are incredibly important! They are not an afterthought. And dear god, don't treat them as an afterthought and then tell people opening issues to RTFM. It's totally okay to point people in the right direction without hostility. It even takes less energy! It's okay to have a bad day and apologize later too, you'll even get more respect! Your docs are just as important as your code, even if you don't agree with me, they are to everyone but you. Besides technical debt there is also design debt. If you're getting the same questions over and over, you probably have poor design or you've miscommunicated somewhere. You're not expected to be a pro at everything you do and that's okay, we're all learning.
This isn't about polars, but I'm sure I'm not the only one to experience main character devs. It makes me (and presumably others) not want to open issues on __any__ project, not just bad projects, and that's bad for the whole community (including me, because users find mistakes. And we know there's 2 types of software: those with bugs and those that no one uses). Stupid people are just wizards in training and you don't get more wizards without noobs.