On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 5:37 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You just sent this same e-mail 24 hours ago. I think the problems we > are solving are different. We are addressing language siloing at the > data level and the shared-computing-libraries level. I am not sure > that code transpilers help us very much. > Oops - sorry for the dup. I checked the archives and didn't see it there. But it was on the second page that I somehow missed. Yes - data silos are a different problem not addressed by code transpilers. But I'm not sure I understand the point about shared computing libraries or how you propose to make the situation better. Say we're talking arrow + datafusion (which is written in Rust). It sounded like your goal is to ensure that users of different language ecosystems get the same performance and feature set as rust. Let me know if I misunderstood. Mapping code is one problem: a ^ b in python is transpiled to a.xor(b) in Kotlin for example. But mapping APIs is a different problem. json.loads(input) could transpile to a different library API in the target language. I was thinking you'd be more interested in the latter. There is a plugin system I'm designing which could benefit from knowing about real world use cases. -Arun
