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Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust
we forked SQLite with the libSQL project. What would it be like if we just rewrote it?
With over 12k Github stars, 85 contributors, and features like native replication and vector search, libSQL is the engine that powers the Turso platform. SQLite itself has a synchronous interface, meaning driver authors who want asynchronous behavior need to have the extra complication of using helper threads. It extends sqlite3_step, the main entry point API to SQLite, to be asynchronous, allowing it to return to the caller if data is not ready to consume immediately.
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