Would it be appropriate to propose Awkward Array as an array library on NumPy's homepage?

[jpivarski]

The numpy.org homepage has a list of array libraries that are either alternatives to or build on NumPy:

Awkward Array fits into this category (it builds on NumPy; not an alternative to it). If this is not considered shameless promotion (I'm its original author), could I open a PR to add it to https://github.com/numpy/numpy.org/blob/main/content/en/tabcontents.yaml?

It would look like this

  - title: Awkward Array
    text: Manipulate JSON-like data with NumPy-like idioms.
    img: /images/content_images/arlib/awkward.svg
    alttext: awkward
    url: https://awkward-array.org/

where awkward.svg is this SVG file.

Then there's a question of where it should go in the list, what is its order relative to the other libraries. My first impression was that they're sorted by popularity, but maybe not: I just checked their numbers of GitHub stars and it seems random. I'd be happy enough putting it at the end of the list.

Library	GitHub stars (March 2023)
Dask	10800
CuPy	6700
JAX	22200
xarray	2900
Sparse	492
PyTorch	63700
TensorFlow	172000
MXNet	20300
Arrow	11300
xtensor	2900
XND	80
uarray	96
tensorly	1400
Awkward Array	658

Any thoughts on this?

In the past, @rgommers has added libraries to this list (czgdp1807@05e0462), so maybe this is a question to him (non-exclusively)?

[rgommers]

Thanks for the suggestion @jpivarski. I'm +1 on this and would be happy to review a PR.

Also thank you for pointing out the relative popularity. Looking at that list, we can remove XND (it's no longer developed). I think you can put Awkward Array in its place, above Uarray and TensorLy.

[stefanv]

+1

[jpivarski]

I've opened PR #633 with this change. Thanks!

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