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I hate indexedDB as much as almost anyone, but this is not an accurate characterization of what happened. People wanted to ship 'just SQLite' and magically anoi
by kevingadd 4y ago
I hate indexedDB as much as almost anyone, but this is not an accurate characterization of what happened. People wanted to ship 'just SQLite' and magically anoint an open source library as a standard. There are lots of problems with that.
- rrdharan 4y agoStill fair to ask, given the world we have now where there’s kinda just “nothing” / broken and crappy implementations, would the alternative world in which SQLite was anointed, have been better head-to-head? I think maybe yes it would have? The perfect defeated the good?
- podviaznikov 4y agomaybe it could have been better. But aren’t we talking from the decisions that happened more than 10 years ago? websql was created in 2010 and IndexedD work started also in 2010 - or around those years. Sqlite didn’t have this amazing reputation it has now back then and decision to have Indexed DB as a standard looked good. At least that is what I remember just reading about it from 2010-2013. In retrospect it’s easier to say that probably the alternative would be better. But I don’t think it was the same decade ago.