[GSoC] Dataframes for D

[James Blachly]

On 5/29/19 2:00 PM, Prateek Nayak wrote:
 > (snip)

Outstanding, and greatly needed. Congratulations to you and your mentors.

Our lab has transitioned to D for new software but still relies on 
python+pandas for some analytics pipelines.

I second the notions about importance of interoperability. An 
interesting in-memory interop framework I haven't seen mentioned here 
yet is Apache Arrow. In this 2017 blog post, Wes McKinney, the author of 
Pandas, discusses it in the context of mistakes made designing pandas; 
recommended reading if you have not:

https://wesmckinney.com/blog/apache-arrow-pandas-internals/