[thenipper]

- Pydantic: basically it might as well be part of the standard library for me - I'm excited by polars as a potential pandas replacement - Speaking of pandas i really like pandera and how it integrates with both pandas and pydantic

[jstx1]

Why use Pydantic instead of dataclasses?

[rsfern]

Pydantic can do validation. There’s also the related Typer, which builds command line interfaces from the type annotations on your entry point

[BerislavLopac]

You might also want to look at https://www.attrs.org, which is basically what dataclasses were supposed to be.