[ARROW-9048] [C#] Support Float16

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: C#
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25163
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Eric Erhardt
• Created: 05/Jun/20 22:34
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:04

Description

With https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/936, .NET is getting a `System.Half` type, which is a 16-bit floating point number. Once that type lands in .NET we can implement support for the Float16 type in Arrow.