What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?

Re:What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? by josephg on Monday September 18, 2023 @07:34AM (#37554836)

Users shouldn’t ever need to adapt to computer crashes like this. Software should always auto save or have recovery files or something. As a principle, software should hold anything a user inputs with reverence.

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Re:What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? by SanderNL on Monday September 18, 2023 @07:47AM (#37554932)

I agree. Maybe as a dev I've become cynical and don't trust anything. Least of all some app holding my document.

Makes me think of the "Voting software" xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030

"I don't quite know how to put this, but our entire field is bad at what we do, and if you rely on us, everyone will die."

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Re:What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? by belenos46 on Monday September 18, 2023 @10:48AM (#37556865)

You think that's cynical? I must be some avatar curmudgeonliness then.

I'm pretty sure that what's actually going on is that everything we think of as a 'profession' is that way, and that people are in fact dying because of it.

The difference is that devs are honest about it.

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Re:What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? by mixmastamyk on Monday September 18, 2023 @04:59PM (#37561971)

Yes, however you have to be sure every single program across decades is written with those rules in mind. Hard on any OS, but a lost cause on */Linux.

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