ultra-summary: they had specific needs for SQLite development, and nothing else was addressing them. It was _not_ intended to solve anyone else's problems. It's

ultra-summary: they had specific needs for SQLite development, and nothing else was addressing them. It was _not_ intended to solve anyone else's problems. It's _probably_ not the right solution for _most_ devs. There's a good high level description by Richard Hipp of why they built it in this interview episode of Corecursive: https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/ https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/