SQLite is incredibly dangerous because it makes me believe it's possible for me to write good software in Tcl and C.

Jan 14, 2023 · 4:35 AM UTC

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Well, well, only if you are confident that you are as good as Dr. Hipp. Are you? And even if you are, then well, isn't it a waste of precious resources to write in C/Tcl when you can write in Rust/Haskell?
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Build times, ease of deployment and design flexibility are as important to me as safety so not necessarily.
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... if you have 20 years to harden it ...
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you can. it just takes 20 years.
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@JeffQuesado @masoxi22
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It's impressive piece of software. But they also have 600 times more test code than the actual library code. That probably has a lot to do with it.
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Was thinking something similar recently.
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