hi Joaquin -- there would be no practical difference, primarily it would be for the preservation of APIs in Python and R related to the Feather format. Internally "read_feather" will invoke the same code paths as the Arrow protocol file reader
- Wes On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 4:12 PM Joaquin Vanschoren <joaquin.vanscho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you all for your very detailed answers! I also read in other threads > that the 1.0.0 release might be coming somewhere this fall? I'm really > looking forward to that. > @Wes: will there be any practical difference between Feather and Arrow > after the 1.0.0 release? It is just an alias? What would be the benefits of > using Feather rather than Arrow at that point? > > Thanks! > Joaquin > > > > On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 at 18:25, Sebastien Binet <bi...@cern.ch> wrote: > > > hi there, > > > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 6:07 AM Micah Kornfield <emkornfi...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > * Can Feather files already be read in Java/Go/C#/...? > > > > > > I don't know the status of feather. The arrow file format should be > > > readable by Java and C++ (I believe all the languages that bind C++ also > > > support the format, these include python, ruby and R) . A quick code > > > search of the repo makes me think that there is also support for C#, Rust > > > and Javascript. It doesn't look like the file format isn't supported in > > Go > > > yet but it probably wouldn't be too hard to do. > > > > > Go doesn't handle Feather files. > > But there is support (not yet feature complete, see [1]) for Arrow files > > (r/w): > > - https://godoc.org/github.com/apache/arrow/go/arrow/ipc > > > > hth, > > -s > > > > [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-3679 > >
