On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 2:12 AM Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote:
> I don't think we should deprecate existing APIs. > +1 I strongly prefer Spark's immutable DataFrame API to the Pandas API. I could be wrong, but I wager most people who have worked with both Spark and Pandas feel the same way. For the large community of current PySpark users, or users switching to PySpark from another Spark language API, it doesn't make sense to deprecate the current API, even by convention.