Ianna Osborne

This is much better. In future, I'd like to update `_backends` so that we don't have to hard-code the nplike-to-backend relationship. _Originally posted by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/3364#discussion_r1985081845_

@pfackeldey - I wonder if we should try to avoid this boilerplate code. Perhaps, something like: ```python class BackendArraySetter: def __init__(self, array, backend): self.array = array self.backend = backend self.nplike...

### Version of Awkward Array Master branch ### Description and code to reproduce It would be more efficient to allow access to the data on the device without copying.

Revisit `VirtualArray` handling in `is_own_array` in `array_module.py`

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I don't think this is a good idea if we can avoid it — a VirtualArray _is _not_ the same as e.g. a Jax array or CuPy array. We also...

Refactor ellipsis handling to use a type-safe Enum for static type checking.

fix: change error to `NotImplementedError` for non-NumpyArray in `zip_no_broadcast`

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Closes #3740.

fix: `to_arrow` datetime conversion

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fixes #3643

### Discussed in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/discussions/3668 Originally posted by **wiso** October 6, 2025 I read some data from uproot and the resulting array is represented as a regular array `values.layout` is ```...

User guide: RDataFrame notebook does not finish

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### Version of Awkward Array 2.8.9 ### Description and code to reproduce It looks like it started happening recently.