Keyword is "SQLite-like", you are the one bringing "rewrite in rust" up.

mitchty · on March 14, 2018

Seems like a distinction without a difference to rewrite "sqlite in c" to "not sqlite but sqlite-like in rust or go".

lukebitts · on March 14, 2018

How is it not different? It would be a completely new library. I don't see what the argument against that is.

mitchty · on March 14, 2018

You're free to do so, as is anyone.

But you'll have to overcome and provide a good reason for why anyone using sqlite should move to your new unproven shiny.

If anything sqlite is a poster child for c done (and tested/validated) right. You'll have to demonstrate a lot more than you can implement some things better in the new language.

lukebitts · on March 14, 2018

I'm going to stop here since the goalposts keep moving. My point is: no one brought "rewrite in rust" up but yourself.

mitchty · on March 14, 2018

Fair enough, but I guess I don't see a difference between rewrite sqlite in rust and, make something exactly like sqlite, with a c ffi but in rust.

jsmthrowaway · on March 14, 2018

I interpreted that commentary as referencing a new library similar in architecture, like an implementation of S3 that lives locally in the software and is modeled after SQLite. Not “let’s rewrite SQLite” like everyone else seems to have run with.