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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I get it...I've never been the maintainer of a codebase that's deployed on trillions of devices, and backwards compatibility is something to be taken seriously and responsibly when you're that prolific. I do not begrudge SQLite or any large projects when they make decisions in service to that.

However

It always makes me feel oddly icky when known bugs (particularly of the footgun variety) become the new standard that the project intentionally upholds.

[–] solrize 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's not on trillions of devices, just billions. But e.g. a typical android phone has 1000s of sqlite db's for different purposes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

You’re right, that’s a distinction I failed to make