diff --git a/docs/posts/farewell-pandas/index.qmd b/docs/posts/farewell-pandas/index.qmd index 66cae175e087..1c5d5df0221a 100644 --- a/docs/posts/farewell-pandas/index.qmd +++ b/docs/posts/farewell-pandas/index.qmd @@ -8,13 +8,18 @@ categories: - community --- -**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