I really do not see that much difference between polars and pandas. Under the hood, sure the machinery is different, but quite a bit of pandas code will run as-is with polars. If you want to maximize the performance + strictness, you do need to adopt the polars style, but the two are quite similar.
Which is to say, I have no real problems with the pandas API. In fact, if I could just transplant the polars strictness into pandas, that would let me keep the slightly more terse syntax.
Which is to say, I have no real problems with the pandas API. In fact, if I could just transplant the polars strictness into pandas, that would let me keep the slightly more terse syntax.