This is a great answer to the parent question, I'll just add that I (try) to provide both a database/sql driver, and a lower level direct mapping of the SQLite

This is a great answer to the parent question, I'll just add that I (try) to provide both a database/sql driver, and a lower level direct mapping of the SQLite C API. Pretty much the only thing the lower level wrapper does for you is simplify some of the memory management inherent to a C API (who allocates? who frees? for everything even something as trivial as an error message: GC+copying handles lightweight types like strings and errors, io.Closer is used for everything else). At the same time, I also made a serious effort to make many SQLite features (like blob IO, nested transactions, JSON, time handling) easy to access for users of the database/sql driver.