I apologise, as I was not clear. My suggestion was mainly to take arrow-rs as reference for implementation while we see more than one attempt for implementing.
2 cnts On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 10:43 PM Gang Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Vaibhav, I'm not sure if I understand your reply correctly. > > As a maintainer of parquet-cpp here, I think arrow-rs has set up a good > example but we shouldn't blindly mirror everything from there. Our review > process is pretty strict so it may take some time to finish. Now it is one > of > our top priorities and we're on the way so please have some patience. > > Best, > Gang > > > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 10:13 AM Vaibhav Khanduja > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I understand we have rust implementation available. Can we not mirror the > > same in c++? We would need support for shredded and unshredded types > > > > Can somebody from the dev community comment here? > > > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 3:30 PM Neelesh Salian <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the update Gang. > > > This would be great to get into arrow c++ and then the downstream > projects > > > can benefit from it. > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM Gang Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> I think several duplicate efforts are working on the variant type in > Arrow > > >> C++. > > >> Zehua (disclaimer: my colleague) has been working on this for quite a > > >> while > > >> [1]. > > >> iceberg-cpp [2] depends on it to be v3 feature complete. We are > reviewing > > >> the > > >> PR internally and will send it out once ready. > > >> > > >> Though AI can generate good code today, Variant type is really a > complex > > >> feature > > >> that requires full spec compliance and native C++ performance and it > takes > > >> time > > >> to meet the high bar of Arrow C++. Let's see how we can collaborate > on it > > >> to > > >> avoid duplicate effort and accelerate the process. > > >> > > >> [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45937 > > >> [2] https://github.com/apache/iceberg-cpp/issues/666 > > >> > > >> Best, > > >> Gang > > >> > > >> On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 6:10 AM Micah Kornfield < > [email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> > Hi Vhaibav, > > >> > Add dev@, yes I think there would be interest. It looks like > > >> > https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/50132 was opened yesterday. > > >> > > > >> > Cheeers, > > >> > Micah > > >> > > > >> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 2:28 PM Vaibhav Khanduja < > > >> > [email protected]> > > >> > wrote: > > >> > > > >> > > Is there interest in Variant type support to be added into PyArrow > > >> > > write_table? > > >> > > > > >> > > Thanks, > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > >
