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It does come off as excessively NIH, with the first point even just being a client UI complaint.
by arghwhat 5y ago
It does come off as excessively NIH, with the first point even just being a client UI complaint.
- im3w1l 5y agoWell sqlite is more of a passion project than about doing things in the most capitalistically efficient way right? So "it makes me happy to invent things here that scratch my itches just so" is a valid reasoning.
- rswail 5y agoSQLite is in every phone on the planet and the author has a company that makes money selling it to environments that require extensive validation (eg airplane software). It's not a "passion project" by any means. It's a highly developed, well engineered piece of software and there's lots of other non "passion projects" that would do well to learn from it.
- SubjectToChange 5y agoD. Richard Hipp has mentioned that SQLite and the TH3 test suite were heavily inspired by DO-178B, but none of the core SQLite developers have been involved in a DO-178B certification nor has anyone purchased the TH3 test suite. Furthermore, SQLite by its nature is not fit for hard real-time systems since it cannot guarantee the execution time of an arbitrary query and/or an arbitrary dataset. I don't mean to disparage SQLite in any way, it is quite the achievement, but your characterization is mistaken.
- rpdillon 5y agoIf the end result weren't so stable and high-quality, I might agree with you. But Fossil has become my VCS for personal projects because I can host a repo-farm trivially through CGI on my webhost, and it includes issues/wiki/forum. This makes me feel like Fossil has carved out a nice niche for itself that provides a real benefit for at least some folks, rather than simply being a reactionary project motivated because git was written elsewhere.