Devont

1. fun and creative things do not strictly help everyone facing depression. Anhedonia will likely strip that enjoyment from you. Maybe they help with colloquial depressions, but the article discusses people facing practical, systemic issues that emotional regulation doesn’t solve and if anything likely makes hobbies feel like they being unproductive against a tide rising around them. Many hobbies also have barriers to entry

2. drugs may help. both in the traditional medicinal sense and recreational sense (given psilocybin is showing great results and is not widely available medicinally)

3. By your logic there is no cancer problem till the heart disease problem is solved (which is well above cancer). And widespread suffering of individuals should be ignored and belittled.

I’ve been following for a bit, but have intentionally avoided using it. It’s prob fine for vibe coders (increasingly seems to be their target) and proof of concept work.

There seems to have been a fair bit feature churn across their whole stack. I’ve seen a fair few projects and tooling fizzle out cuz of the moving targets. It’s not really clear what is long term stable.

There is a lot of over promising and under delivering (features advertised in their 1.0 still not here). They own your whole stack, so deviating from what they provide is an unhappy path. If you need something beyond what is in their current feature set (not what is promised!) then you will probably have an easier time constructing such a system out of the hundreds of open-source components built for modular construction.

Their hosting has not been stable (no LTS either, so you are forced to live on the edge of their deploy schedule). Limited hosting options (only US iirc). Migrations and long term management don't seem to be in a great state either (external tooling needed). Trying to escape their stewardship and selfhost leaves you with a restrictive license…

It seems they are trying to follow in Michael Stonebrakers footsteps, first with copying VoltDB and now DBOS. It’s not clear what their priorities are, when they haven’t yet delivered a single solid product yet.

I do not really see how their business model is any different than VoltDB which was also open source with gated features. The VoltDB community died off for this reason, not sure why we would expect anything different to happen here. Unless they change their license, I would not expect a thriving community like Postgres or SQLite/LibSQL

Has anyone benchmarked it against Volt Active Data yet? They seem comparable in premise and further along in development.

For as long as I’ve known about SpacetimeDB the premise seemed to have its uses, but I don't really trust how new it is nor all the weird marketing behind it

*Founder…

SpacetimeDBs “benchmarks” might be the most egregious, blatantly misleading benchmark I’ve ever seen. Lost a lot of respect for the team behind it

Personally I think they launched their 1.0 prematurely. The community seems a bit mired in constant rewriting and immature tooling. Because this setup owns your whole stack, when they having a breaking change it ripples through the whole thing and your on the hook for that as a consumer (prob more so if they control your hosting). Someday they might reach a stable state, but for now if you don't want to bleed for them, I’d be weary.

(I think there are technical and marketing reasons to be weary of as well, but the degree to which that matters is application specific. The above is universal and will probably continue to be the case through at least a few more major revisions if I had to guess).