Polars

4 engineers on Hacker News describe using Polars first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.

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4first-hand users
3in production
endorse 2mixed 1regret 0uses, no opinion

“The most pleasant api by far for a programmatic user”

mixed · personal · theLiminator · 2025-01-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“predicate and projection push down (thanks to polars) to reduce that further.”

endorse · production · jmartin2683 · 2022-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the code in this library has allowed me to transition my company's pandas-centric code to polars-centric code more quickly, which has led to significant speedups and memory savings”

endorse · production · austospumanto · 2021-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“because everything is in Polars, we can most frequently simply output to CSV”

neutral · production · irridiance · 2025-05-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?