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"libSQL" is a silly name. It's not a library is it? I wish people would at least vaguely try to be helpful naming products.
by philipwhiuk 4y ago
"libSQL" is a silly name. It's not a library is it?
I wish people would at least vaguely try to be helpful naming products.
- another2another 4y agoWell, it can be linked as an external library, probably also statically linked (? never tried), or - how I use it, compiled into your program as a single sqlite.c file.
- glommer 4y agoof course it is a library. An embedded database is essentially a library that you add to your application. That you can build stuff around it, doesn't invalidate the fact that the core of it is a library.
- Spivak 4y agoIt seems like it’s a library you’re meant to embed in an application and that sqld is just one application built on libSQL. It does seem like it makes more sense to call it something that alludes that it’s postgres
- zffr 4y agoFrom the SQLite homepage: "SQLite is a C-language library that implements a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine." Wouldn't a fork also be a library?