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Re:DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supp... by Smerity on Sunday September 20, 2020 @12:26AM (#24531891)
A giant plant as in someone from their team planning this out and then planting this as a comment..?

simonw wrote Datasette[1] which makes extensive use of SQLite and acts as a viewer, allowing you to create interactive websites and APIs from arbitrary databases. He'd be a very long term plant and it instead seems far more likely he's interested in the possibilities of DuckDB compatibility within the context of Datasette and other similar projects.

[1]: https://github.com/simonw/datasette

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Re:DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supp... by simonw on Sunday September 20, 2020 @12:36AM (#24531917)
I actually started looking at it today because someone was asking about it on the Datasette discussions board: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/discussions/968
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