Hello, I am pretty stoked to report progress on a Rust Variant implementation (see epic here[0]).
1. We have added example binary data in parquet-testing[1] (Thanks Micah for the review and merge) 2. Jiaying's prototype [2] is looking good and we are preparing to start merging it in pieces 3. I have created a PR to add a parquet-variant crate to arrow-rs[3] (looking for a review 🎣) Once we have the parquet-variant crate merged, I expect a series of PRs that incrementally adds support for different parts of the Variant specification. Once this is done, we will move on to integrating it into the parquet decoder. Exciting times, Andrew [0]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/6736 [1]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-testing/pull/76 [2]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7452 [3]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7485
