It's probably best for description to limit mentions of specific features. There are some high level features mentioned in the description now ("computational libraries and zero-copy streaming messaging and interprocess communication"), but now in 2021 since the project has grown so much, it could leave people with a limited view of what they might find here.
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 12:14 AM Mauricio Vargas <mauri...@ursacomputing.com> wrote: > > How about > 'Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory data. > It enables systems to process and transport data efficiently, providing a > simple and fast library for partitioning of large tables'? > > Sorry the delay, long election day > > On Sun, May 16, 2021, 2:27 PM Nate Bauernfeind <natebauernfe...@deephaven.io> > wrote: > > > Suggestion: faster -> more efficiently > > > > "Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory > > data. It enables systems to process and transport data more efficiently." > > > > On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 11:35 AM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Here's what there now: > > > > > > "Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory > > > data. It specifies a standardized language-independent columnar memory > > > format for flat and hierarchical data, organized for efficient > > > analytic operations on modern hardware. It also provides computational > > > libraries and zero-copy streaming messaging and interprocess > > > communication…" > > > > > > How about something shorter like > > > > > > "Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory > > > data. It enables systems to process and transport data faster." > > > > > > Suggestions / refinements from others welcome > > > > > > > > > On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 9:12 PM Dominik Moritz <domor...@cmu.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > Super minor issue but could someone make the description on GitHub > > > shorter? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > GitHub puts the description into the title of the page and makes it > > hard > > > to find it in URL autocomplete. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > >