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Mention dask in the deprecation post.
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**TL; DR**: we are deprecating the `pandas` backend and will be removing it in version 10.0.
**TL; DR**: we are deprecating the `pandas` and `dask` backends and will be
removing them in version 10.0.

There is no feature gap between the `pandas` backend and our default DuckDB
backend, and DuckDB is _much_ more performant. `pandas` DataFrames will still
be available as _format_ for getting data from Ibis, we just won't support using
`pandas` to execute queries.

Most of the rationale below applies to the Dask backend since it has so much in
common with Pandas. Dask is a great project and people should continue to use
it outside the Ibis context.

## Why `pandas`? And a bit of Ibis history

Way back in the early days of Ibis, there was only one backend: Impala. Not
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