jorisvandenbossche commented on pull request #8255: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/8255#issuecomment-698878811
> I was using that functionality. So I'm interested to see how I can replace it. And so I am interested to understand how you were using it, to know what to write about a replacement You mention the goal of passing objects to other languages, but since that is also not possible now with serialize: what do you use `serialize` for *currently* ? Is it a use case where you can basically replace it with pickle? > I'm still unsure if arrow is capable of this language-agnostic interop for blobs of heterogeneous types? At the moment, not for "random" objects, but only for types that fit into one of the [serialization format / IPC message types](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#serialization-and-interprocess-communication-ipc). The `pyarrow.serialization` module always has been python specific. Expanding the IPC messages types might be possible, but is something that needs to be discussed on the dev mailing list to see if there is interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
