Comment by eropple

This is a pretty weak argument. Using "KiB" instead of "KB" is precise, not "anti-noob". And I don't think that there's a serious reason for a C library to provide a non-C tutorial on the off chance that you don't know C and have to bind it to a language without libraries--if you're using almost anything modern, you already have a SQLite library and shouldn't need to do the binding yourself.

Even assuming the lack of a library, however, I still find the "but it's all in C!" argument unpersuasive. The idea that C is some deep "neckbeard" stuff is just silly. Part of understanding programming is understanding how your language of choice interacts with the lingua franca that is C, even if you don't know C yourself (which you really should, even if you're working in Ruby or Python or Java on a regular basis). So learn what you need to learn before using SQLite if you have to write your own bindings. That is not a big deal. If it "alienates" you, learn more. It's all out there for you.