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Re:Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017) by masklinn on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @12:30PM (#16585924)
> Rust and possibly even Go would be strong contenders to make a new SQLite-like library/program today.

Go absolutely would not be, one of the purposes of sqlite is to be embeddable in any and all software.

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Re:Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017) by _ph_ on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @01:36PM (#16586616)
You can create shared libraries in Go, which can be used as any C-implemented shared library. This would make a Go-implemented SQLite equally usable by other programming languages as a C written one.
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