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Hi Kedro community! Is anyone here a user of the <https://docs.kedro.org/en/stable/api/kedro.io.LambdaDataset.html|LambdaDataset> and if so, what do you use it for? We're <https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro/issues/4292|thinking of removing> the dataset, but would like to know its usage before doing it.

Waylon was a big proponent of it
<https://waylonwalker.com/kedro-lambda-node/>

does it cause issues with maintenance?

IIRC he just liked it from a readability pov

> does it cause issues with maintenance?
No, not really, but my thinking is why would we maintain something that's unused? Removing is a breaking change, so if we don't want to bring it to 1.0 we should remove it now :slightly_smiling_face:

I might not the best reference point, but I didn't know that dataset existed, and now that I know, I don't see myself using it :sweat_smile:.

I always use lambda functions like Waylon, in the pipeline.py file.

I saw we deprecate, but maybe say in the warning message to comment on an issue if you need it 