Hi Renji, Sorry about that yes it is! I sent it in, but realised that it wasn't showing up because I wasn't subscribed to the mailing list, so I subscribed and then resubmitted after talking to Xuanwo on Slack.
Is there a way to close this accidental duplicate thread? On 6 Aug 2024 at 5:06:40 PM, Renjie Liu <liurenjie2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Chris: > > Seems duplicated with this thread > <https://lists.apache.org/thread/7tw9qzz7yd8c4d7tcrwpmn7k0ojws7zh> > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2024 at 12:54 AM Chris Atkins <chri...@buildkite.com.invalid> > wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I'm following up on a discussion >> <https://apache-iceberg.slack.com/archives/C05HTENMJG4/p1722750831522969> >> from >> the #rust channel on the Iceberg community slack, so starting a thread here >> too. >> >> After seeing Xuanwo's and Song's recent proposals around leveraging >> iceberg-rust to power parts of PyIceberg, I was thinking it could be >> valuable to follow a similar pattern to build out Ruby bindings for >> Iceberg. Being able to stand on the shoulders of iceberg-rust could really >> help build out a robust Ruby interface, and also offer some opportunities >> for interop with things like datafusion and opendal. >> >> Recently in the Ruby ecosystem, writing native extensions in Rust has >> become more popular, and tools like rb-sys and magnus provide a lot of the >> required infrastructure. A good example is ruby-polars, which provides an >> interface that is idiomatic Ruby but retains good symmetry with the APIs >> exposed by py-polars. I wonder if we could eventually aim for a similar >> type of symmetry between PyIceberg and a Ruby gem? >> >> Is there much interest in this? I've started playing around with some of >> the basics, and started out with a plain native Ruby implementation of some >> of the basic metadata APIs, but quickly realised that building on >> iceberg-rust could be more productive than writing it all from scratch. >> >> *References* >> >> https://lists.apache.org/thread/5570vbdkrk7mdswt4jqy45lv7y58pz4b >> https://lists.apache.org/thread/33c0nkc3k6646lvro1lv22pvhwlp50ss >> https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/518 >> >> *Prior Art in Ruby* >> >> https://github.com/matsadler/magnus >> https://github.com/oxidize-rb/rb-sys >> https://github.com/ankane/ruby-polars >> https://github.com/apache/opendal/tree/main/bindings/ruby >> >> Thanks, >> Chris Atkins >> >
