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		kabirgoel 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust Guessing the shortcomings become starker if you’re spending lots of time in the codebase/building a company on top of it.

penberg 10 months ago | [–]

Yeah… Attempting to integrate MVCC and then doing vector search gave enough perspective to do this!

akira2501 10 months ago | [–]

> building a company on top of it.

So be sure you proceed in such a way that never contributes any money or code back to the original project.

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