I gave up pandas in favor of polars after someone at work did the same and I am very happy with it. Pandas API is just so much worse and much slower.

I guess I am a casual pandas user only. Reading a guide on migrating/differences, it's hard to see why polars would be obviously better.

Taken out of context, your post looks like a conservationist who got fed up with pandas being a flagship species and made it their lifelong mission to replace them with polar bears.

This is not a criticism. As someone who doesn’t use Python, I simply found it amusing.

Both have terrible syntax that make SQL look like the most readable thing ever.