alamb opened a new issue, #5375:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/5375

   **Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe 
what you are trying to do.**
   Recently two new types were added to the Arrow format that make it more 
suitable for certain types of operations on Lists
   
   Specifically when doing filtering / take with List  data, creating a new 
`ListArray` or `LargeListArray` requires copying the underlying lists to a new, 
packed buffer. The "ListView" was designed to solve this limitation and 
recently added to the Arrow spec.
   
   **Describe the solution you'd like**
   I would like to implement `ListViewArray` and `LargeListViewArray` following 
the spec:
   The spec:  https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#listview-layout
   
   
   Initially, I would suggest we get the basic types in place:
   - [ ] `DataType`
   - [ ] `Array` implementations and layout and basic construction
   
   Then as follow on PRs, add support to key kernels:
   - [ ] `cast` (to/from ListAray / LargeListArray)
   - [ ] `filter`
   - [ ] `take`
   
   
   **Describe alternatives you've considered**
   
   
   
   **Additional context**
   This is similar in spirit to the `StringViewArray` and `BinaryViewArray` 
described in https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/5374
   


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