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> spend some time thinking about abstractions related to memory management / zero-copy There actually is already some of this in there, the copying semantics are completely predictable and users...

Thanks, that's useful information. Having looked into this a little bit more today, I definitely realize that one vital thing that I haven't implemented is the [IPC spec](https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/format/IPC.md). I still...

Again, in case it wasn't clear or got lost in the course of this thread, I have no objections. Clearly what remains to be done is to write some code...

Hello all, just wanted to echo a brief exchange I had with Wes on the Arrow mailing list: I have undertaken finishing this in earnest. While I'm at it, I've...

That was definitely one of my concerns: I'm not aware of any good options right now on how the Julia package manager would deal with this being in the mono-repo.

That's not misguided, there are many advantages to simply having a wrapper with Cxx.jl. I am a little bit concerned with the status of Cxx.jl until it matures a bit...

Yeah this package is deprecated now in favor of the JuliaData one, I'm pleased to say. The new one is based partially on my rewrite of this but is mostly...

Thanks, it really was not good of me to use internal fields like that. Shouldn't be too hard to fix, but I'm pretty deep in a major rewrite of this...

I'm discovering that one must be extremely careful of this issue in the new `build` functions. If the function is given an argument that's supposed to specify its `eltype`, one...

You're right that I don't cover the first part of [this](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/metadata.html) this about schemas yet nor have I worked on any inter-process communication stuff. I *do* however support the Arrow...