There are two pieces of tech that punch way above their weight: Lua and SQLite So many apps could have just saved to a .db file instead of coming up with their

There are two pieces of tech that punch way above their weight: Lua and SQLite So many apps could have just saved to a .db file instead of coming up with their own binary format. So many others could have just embedded a tiny, easily sandboxed, Lua library and added scripting languages, rather than embedding larger ones (or worse yet, implementing their own scripts).