Thanks for the update Gang. This would be great to get into arrow c++ and then the downstream projects can benefit from it.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM Gang Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > I think several duplicate efforts are working on the variant type in Arrow > C++. > Zehua (disclaimer: my colleague) has been working on this for quite a while > [1]. > iceberg-cpp [2] depends on it to be v3 feature complete. We are reviewing > the > PR internally and will send it out once ready. > > Though AI can generate good code today, Variant type is really a complex > feature > that requires full spec compliance and native C++ performance and it takes > time > to meet the high bar of Arrow C++. Let's see how we can collaborate on it > to > avoid duplicate effort and accelerate the process. > > [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45937 > [2] https://github.com/apache/iceberg-cpp/issues/666 > > Best, > Gang > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 6:10 AM Micah Kornfield <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Vhaibav, > > Add dev@, yes I think there would be interest. It looks like > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/50132 was opened yesterday. > > > > Cheeers, > > Micah > > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 2:28 PM Vaibhav Khanduja < > > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Is there interest in Variant type support to be added into PyArrow > > > write_table? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > >
