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From the README:

Key differences between textql and sqlite importing

sqlite import will not accept stdin, breaking unix pipes. textql will happily do so.

textql supports quote escaped delimiters, sqlite does not.

textql leverages the sqlite in memory database feature as much as possible and only touches disk if asked.

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But it is SQLite under the covers? A better title then would be an SQLite wrapper for use in shell pipelines.

In this case, It’s what it does that matters, not how it does it. I don’t care if SQLLite is powering it. Maybe the author would want to swap out the SQLLite engine with something else in the future too. Then it’s even better that they didn’t advertise the link to SQLLite as a selling point.

SQL dialects have significant differences. You can't simply change the underlying engine without breaking backward compatibility. It's also good to redirect documentation to official sqllite docs instead of writing a 1000 page manual yourself.

It does actually matter what's running under, so you know what to expect from its behavior and if one doesn't exactly need the few features textQL offers exclusively, you would think to just use SQLite without random layers on top.

Sure, but it doesn’t need to be in the title

My favorite C wrapper for scripting is Perl.

The Readme is describing the differences in importing. I'm not sure how your distinction makes this any more clear.

That's a silly complaint. It's a tool powered by SQLite. Under your extended definition, tools like web browsers (which use SQLite to power various things) would be SQLite wrappers.

If I wrote 10 lines of JS and claimed credit for the whole web browser, more like

I don't see it as a complaint but as a piece of feedback and if you're the author then you may want to revisit your attitude.

Nah, people say such ridiculous garbage that they need to be called out. Especially here where people seem to take delight in disparaging your work in the tiniest way they can think of.

I don't think OP needs to pussy foot around some stranger on an internet message board. It's free shit.

"SQLite in your shell" would be a catchy title :-)

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