Hi All, I have put a PR with WIP changes. All the major set of changes have been done to decouple the usage of ArrowBuf and reference management. The ArrowBuf interface is much simpler and clean now.
I believe there would be several folks in the community interested in these changes so please feel free to take a look at the PR and provide your feedback -- https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/4151 There is some cleanup needed (code doesn't compile yet) due to moving the APIs but I have raised the PR to get an early feedback from the community on the critical changes. Thanks, Siddharth
