Their (polars) FOSS solution isn't at all neuteured, imo that's a little bit of an unfair criticism. Yeah, they are trying to make their distributed query engine for-profit, but as a user of the single-node solution, I haven't been pressured at all to use their cloud solution.
Sure, just wanted to give the perspective of a new person walking into this field. I'd agree, but I think there are a lot of data analysts that have never heard of polars.
It’s a bit of a hot take, but not wildly outlandish either.
Pandas supports so many use cases and is still more feature rich than polars. But you always have the polars.DataFrame.to_pandas() function in your back pocket so realistically you can always at least start with polars.
