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>Always seemed silly that one of the most popular storage technologies couldn't be accessed with pure Go.

I don't know why Google didn't pay someone to do this or do it themselves. Surely they use Go and sqlite together.

You’re overestimating the influence Google as a cooperation has on Go, you think they’re gonna pay for what they’re not gonna use ?

> you think they’re gonna pay for what they’re not gonna use

This is it. They have internal datastores that they use for nearly everything. They might be using SQLite somewhere for something, but I really doubt this would even land near the bottom of their priority list.

Why would someone at google ever use sqlite?

Chrome and Android make heavy use of SQLite. Not that Golang is very relevant to those projects

Why wouldn't they? Are you implying that, over the course of decades of Google's existence and thousands of software projects, not once has there ever had the need for a lightweight SQL store that can be embedded with a server or CLI tool?

Your comment truly does SQLite a disservice. SQLite is probably one of the most impressive pieces of software to have ever graced this earth.

Google's practice is that every service they build is built that way that it can scale to millions of users. On servers i don't think they would use sqlite unlike in android. If i build stuff i usually start with sqlite.

It's much more that servers are ephemeral, so the DBs are as a service from another team.

Would you run sqlite in kubernetes? (if so... whyyyyyyy?)

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