Trust your gut. It's a public shaming campaign disguised as a history lesson. Glauber Costa is trying to seem welcoming in one breath and, in another breath, is sniping at the same people he claims to want to join.
> We [Glauber Costa] take our code of conduct seriously, and unlike SQLite, we do not substitute it with an unclear alternative. We strive to foster a community that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage others to speak up if they feel uncomfortable.
With zero new code to justify this fork, this article is little more than a silly power trip by a flailing startup.
They do have clear goals of what to add, their goals make somewhat sense for some use-cases. But pretty much all of them direct conflict with at least one and sometimes multiple SQLlite core principles...
What the author wants as far as I can tell is a embedded distributed (edge) database with some C-API and SQL compatibility to SQLite so that you can use it with existing tooling (like e.g. by linking against it instead of sqlite) but not necessary as a drop in replacement (different transaction semantics), which doesn't need the same degree of portability as sqlite.
Through that is not quite what the author ends up communicating in the article. I wonder what degree of the formulations are intentionally manipulative compared to accidentally badly formulated.
Regardless of intention, the inability of the author to adequately explain why a fork was necessary, apart from some hand wavy arguments that some other solutions were inadequate, does not inspire confidence. I find it very hard to be generous with the author given the way that he paints himself as a visionary while casually dismissing the work and perspective of the people who actually did the real visionary work of seeding the technologies that he has hitched his wagon to.
> We [Glauber Costa] take our code of conduct seriously, and unlike SQLite, we do not substitute it with an unclear alternative. We strive to foster a community that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage others to speak up if they feel uncomfortable.
With zero new code to justify this fork, this article is little more than a silly power trip by a flailing startup.