Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017)

Re:Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017) by rwbt on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:06PM (#16587830)

Interesting. I love programming in Nim but I'm not sure if I would consider developing something like SQLite in Nim. It still has a few rough edges IMHO.

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Re:Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017) by dom96 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:59PM (#16588238)

> It still has a few rough edges

Love to hear what those are and what language you would consider developing SQLite in.

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Re:Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017) by rwbt on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:26PM (#16588439)

I'm nowhere near technically competent to develop something like SQLite in any language. Richard Hipp is a legend unto himself.

But, I tried working in Nim without GC and out turned out to be a bigger hassle than I expected it to be. GC was supposed to be ref counted and now they're doing memory regions? There is also a -gc:stack which I'm not sure if it works the way like in C++. Then there is the pointer free paradigm. Don't get me wrong, I'm very optimistic about Nim and would be great if it really replaces C. But I feel like it's doing too many things at once.

I personally feel like Nim dev team should stop adding new features every release and work on releasing a solid 1.0.

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