Comment by refactor_master

I honestly don't get why you'd hate pandas more than anything else in the Python ecosystem. It's probably not the best tool in the world, and sure, like everybody else I'd rewrite the universe in Rust if I could start over, and had infinite time to catch up.

But the code base I work on has thousands and THOUSANDS of lines of Pandas churning through big data, and I can't remember the last time it lead to a bug or error in production.

We use pandas + static schema wrapper + type checker, so you'll have to get exotic to break things.