As a user? No, I don't have to choose. What I'm saying is that analysts (who this Polars Cloud targets, just like Coiled or Databricks) shouldn't worry about instance types, shuffling performance, join strategies, JVM versions, cross-AZ pricing etc. In most cases, they should just get a connection string and/or a web UI to run their queries, everything abstracted from them.
Sure, Python code is more testable and composable (and I do love that). Have I seen _any_ analysts write tests or compose their queries? I'm not saying these people don't exist, but I have yet to bump into any.
Sure, Python code is more testable and composable (and I do love that). Have I seen _any_ analysts write tests or compose their queries? I'm not saying these people don't exist, but I have yet to bump into any.