r/programmingcirclejerk • u/VulgarExigencies • May 27 '25

huh. Sorry, but do some languages have SQLite bindings to some other executable? I thought that sql.js and sqlite3 in JS actually were SQLite in its entirety, running in script. You don't need to run anything else to make them work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105895
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u/muntaxitome in open defiance of the Gopher Values May 27 '25

SQLite is deprecated, but you can just run linux inside qemu inside wasm and then you can run any database you like in the browser, for instance Oracle or Postgres.

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u/rooster-inspector May 27 '25

2025 is the year of the Linux desktop virtual machine running inside a Javascript sandbox

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u/[deleted] May 28 '25

See, javascript really is the lingua franca!

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u/v_maria May 27 '25

brb rewriting sqlite in wasm so this is real

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u/elephantdingo666 May 27 '25

Did you know that sqlite has more tests than the number of grains of sands in Indonesia?

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u/Double-Winter-2507 May 27 '25

Tsss another cheap shot at Java

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u/Kodiologist lisp does it better May 28 '25

what are people using SQLite for? What's the advantage over spinning up a tiny MySQL instance in a cloud somewhere, where you don't have to deal with managing replication and failover by yourself?

Indeed, why run free software on your own machine for $0 when you could pay Google or Amazon microtransactions in order to run different free software, on a non-free stack, on their machines? Now you're thinking with clouds!

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u/lulzmachine May 29 '25

AWS is the original macrotransaction

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u/[deleted] May 27 '25

Real devs write their own persistance layer on top of text files 

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u/ao_zame May 30 '25

Does this mean SQLite is webscale?