Comment by arp242
19 hours ago
I've sometimes wondered what their plan for this is wrt. people. Richard Hipp is 64, and I don't think he plans to continue working on SQLite until he's 90. I know two other people work on SQLite, but AFAIK he owns the company(?)
That said, I think the future of SQLite is basically guaranteed on account of being open source (as much as anything in this world can be guaranteed anyway). Look at Rust: it's done fine since Mozilla stopped sponsoring it. Go will be fine when/if Google stops sponsoring it. etc.
> the future of SQLite is basically guaranteed on account of being open source
I am not concerned with whether it has a future. But I do fear that the absolute manic focus on code quality, testing and support may take a dive when other programmers take the helm. I am not claiming that there are no developers who are equally careful and/or skilled, but whether the culture of SQLite will persist is, to me, still an open question.
Considering the way things are going, I think this is a valid concern for software in general.
> I've sometimes wondered what their plan for this is wrt.
I'm also curious about this for other projects such as Shakti/k9 [1]. Apologies if not referred to correctly as I'm not familiar with these tools, so consider this a question as much as a comment:
A seemingly obscure implementation of a complex tool with a relatively high learning curve and just three maintainers that is supposedly a key component in a number of domains using high-frequency timeseries data (finance, etc.)?
What's the cost/complexity ratio in incorporating technology like this into your system? Or is it much less than the impression I get as someone that's jsut a curious passer-by?
[1] https://shakti.com/
https://hwaci.com/
"Hipp, Wyrick & Company, Inc., or "Hwaci" for short, is a small North Carolina company providing knowledge services to clients around the world since 1992. Hwaci is an S-Corporation owned by the husband and wife team of Richard Hipp and Ginger Wyrick."
Companies are a standard mechanism to provide continuity past the lifetime of a single person. A corporation, if it truly adheres to the laws and bylaws, has enough formalisms to ensure such an organization and its products continue to be supported past a lifetime.