Pandas Should Go Extinct
Pandas Should Go Extinct 12 September 2026 / pandas , python , data , polars , duckdb , analytics This post covers material from a talk I gave at Latency Conference. If you want to just:Watch the talk you can find the recording here; orRead the slides, they are here. You read that correctly, Pandas should go extinct.
- ▪Pandas Should Go Extinct 12 September 2026 / pandas , python , data , polars , duckdb , analytics This post covers material from a talk I gave at Latency Conference.
- ▪If you want to just:Watch the talk you can find the recording here; orRead the slides, they are here.
- ▪You read that correctly, Pandas should go extinct.
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Pandas Should Go Extinct 12 September 2026 / pandas , python , data , polars , duckdb , analytics This post covers material from a talk I gave at Latency Conference. If you want to just:Watch the talk you can find the recording here; orRead the slides, they are here. You read that correctly, Pandas should go extinct. Not the cute fluffy things used for international diplomacy, but the Python DataFrame library. Why? Because Pandas’ inefficiencies force you to adopt distributed querying systems before your workloads justify the added complexity. I posit that most workloads will never justify those systems, they are just well marketed “silver bullets”. To understand what I’m talking about we first must understand the typical adoption pathway for Pandas.
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