I'm curious what other (sub-) communities do about implementation-specific considerations that aren't directly tied to the Arrow standard. I don't see much of that kind of discussion on the dev list; does that mean these happen largely in the context of specific pull requests -- or perhaps not at all?
My specific motivation for asking is that there are three similar feature requests for C#: 23892 <https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/23892>, 37359 <https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/37359> and 35199 <https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/35199>. Looking at these, I was thinking that the best general solution would be to have the scalar arrays in C# implement IReadOnlyList<T?> and ICollection<T?>. The former is a strictly-better superset of IEnumerable<T?> which also allows indexing by position, while the latter is an unfortunate concession to working well with "LINQ" (pre-.NET 9). Implementing ICollection<T?> would allow LINQ's "ToList" to just work, and work efficiently. But it feels weird to just submit a PR for this kind of implementation decision without more feedback from users or potential users, and at the same time it doesn't feel significant enough to e.g. write it up in a document to submit for review. I could (and will) open a new issue for this on GitHub, but it doesn't look like anyone proactively looks at new issues to find things to comment on. So what do others do? Thanks, -Curt
