Hi All, I’m hoping someone on this list can comment on the scope of Arrow. In the interview with Wes for O’Reilly he spoke about an “operator kernel library”. On the homepage it states that Arrow “enables execution engines to take advantage of the latest SIMD…”. Is this “operator kernel library” a part of Arrow or will it be a separate “execution engine” library that is built on top of Arrow. It seems to me that is will be a part of Arrow, is my understanding correct?
If this is the case, what is the scope of such a library? Taking pandas 2.0 as an example, do you plan to have pandas be a wrapper around Arrow? Arrow being the “libpandas” referred to in the design document for pandas 2.0 maybe? “we have not decided” is a valid response to any/all of the questions above. Apologies if these are basic questions. I’m excited about the project and where it could go. I’m an Actuary looking to build an Actuarial modeling library on top of Arrow and I would love to contribute. However, I feel I have a lot to learn first. Is there a better forum for basic questions from would be new contributors? (I won’t be offended if you tell me that there is no forum for basic questions, I understand that momentum is important and you are all busy moving the project toward 1.0) Thanks for your time, Paddy Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10
