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Makes a lot of sense for SQLite to be written in C. It's a heavily optimized and debugged database implementation: Just look at btree.c with all its gotos :)

The only language that would make sense for a partial/progressive migration is zig, in huge part due to its compatibility with C. It's not mentioned in the article though.

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Zig hasn't even had it's first release yet. And projects written in it still break in new releases. Given their stance on boringness and maturity it would make no sense for Sqlite to consider zig yet.

SQLite is never gonna be rewritten by its creators in another language. That is highly doubtful considering the age of SQLite and the roadmap for support I think until 2060 or mid 2050s based on what I’ve read.

> SQLite is never gonna be rewritten by its creators in another language.

Almost certainly correct. It is however being rewritten in Rust by other people https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso. This is probably best thought of as a seperate, compatible project rather than a true rewrite.

I'm biased but when I see Discord as the only way of communication, it doesn't make for a serious project. I wish more projects would rely on IRC/Matrix + forums.

For better or worse, plenty of serious projects are using Discord for communication. It's not great, but IRC and Matrix have their own problems (IMO Zulip is the best of the bunch, but doesn't seem to be particularly widely adopted).

You're right. Just look at their branding. Such poor taste. I'm sure it's a scam.

The amount of completely obscure and exotic platforms that have C compiler, and the amount of tooling and analysis tools C has — I'd be surprised anything comparable exists.

What would be a reason to bring Zig in?

For example, Rust has additional memory guarantees when compared to C.

Zig has better ergonomics over C but not as complex as Rust.

Maybe DRH will see this and update the page !

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