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"TL; DR: we are deprecating the pandas and dask backends and will be removing them in version 10.0.

There is no feature gap between the pandas backend and our default DuckDB backend"

There is an important feature gap, pandas has all the users and no one knows you guys. Was trying to pitch this to my company but I guess its goodbye Ibis and thanks for all the fish.

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were you using the pandas backend in Ibis and pitching that to your company? you'd have much better performance and efficiency using the default backend, even if you used pandas for data input and output (though the DuckDB data readers are generally more efficient too). I'd be happy to help you on the pitch!

and if you were using the pandas backend or know of many users doing so, please reach out! we love feedback from our users and would be sad to see y'all go, we're open to reconsidering any decisions based on feedback

Yes I agree and have tested it, my point is that marketing wise it is a shame. I will even think that when looking into new tooling "pandae" compatibility as a search term and incentive would be far ahead the word "dataframe"

we will take this excellent marketing advise under advisement, thank you for your consideration

Pandas compatibility as input and output will remain. Not sure what's in doubt here.

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