Another problem is the Apache Software Foundation don't seem to have any Swift maintainers, which means there really aren't any good pure Swift libraries for Arrow or Parquet.
There are some really good open-source libraries from Apple like Swift Collections or Swift Binary Parsing.
FWIW, there is an active discussion on this very topic: https://forums.swift.org/t/proposal-compression-library/8541...
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