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Dunno. Good luck to them, but I never saw a need to rewrite sqlite.

Guessing the shortcomings become starker if you’re spending lots of time in the codebase/building a company on top of it.

Yeah… Attempting to integrate MVCC and then doing vector search gave enough perspective to do this!

> building a company on top of it.

So be sure you proceed in such a way that never contributes any money or code back to the original project.

I do see a need for multiple implementations of SQLite3. First there's the need for multiple implementations for the reasons given by the LibSQL folks, second there's the need for a memory-safe language implementation of SQLite3, and third there's the need for a native language implementation for languages whose runtimes really want not to have C involved (e.g., Go).

The fact that there's no alternative implementation of SQLite also seems to play a part in preventing standardization of WebSQL.

https://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/

"The specification reached an impasse: all interested implementors have used the same SQL backend (Sqlite), but we need multiple independent implementations to proceed along a standardisation path."

Indeed! This sort of thing is a problem. It's the same with Internet protocols: you need at least two implementations to get to Standard.

I was completely unaware of that! How old is that document? I should reach out.

That effort died about 14 years ago.

damn =(

an opportunity for all of us to celebrate the astonishing power of necromancy

Most of us don't see the need to do something until after it is done.

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