Comment by pelasaco

So the idea is to rewrite it in Rust and drop SQLite? I mean, maybe that’s just how things evolve. But it feels like every project is only a few vibe-coding sessions away from getting rewritten in $LANGUAGE. And I can’t help wondering whether that’s hurting a sustainable open-source ecosystem.

SQLite is a good example: the author built a small ecosystem around it and managed to make a living from open source. Thanks to author's effort, we have a small surface area, extreme stability, relentless focus on correctness.

If we keep rewarding novelty over stewardship, we’ll lose more “SQLite-like” projects—stable cores that entire ecosystems depend on.