[jacobdi]

My team has been trying to modernize pandas from a different tact. Regardless of struggle with the syntax, it seems Pandas is very sticky, and we don't predict much migration to other data science languages. Instead of refining the syntax, we have combined it with a spreadsheet GUI (https://github.com/mito-ds/monorepo). Here, we worry less about writing perfect syntax ourselves, and let the GUI write the code for functions like pivot tables and merges that work well visually.