Ah, I assumed the page was written recently due to this message at the bottom:

>> This page was last updated on 2025-05-09 15:56:17Z <<

> I think it is at least arguable that Rust does not meet the requirements

Absolutely. The lack of clean OOM handling alone might be a dealbreaker for sqlite. And I suspect sqlite builds for some weird platforms that rustc doesn't support.

But I find it pretty weird reading comments about how rust needs prove it performs similarly to C. Benchmarks are just a google search away folks.

> And they did explicitly invite private argument if you feel differently.

Never.

Its not up to me what language sqlite is written in. Emailing the sqlite authors to tell them to rewrite their code in a different language would be incredibly rude. They can write sqlite in whatever language they want. My only real choice is whether or not I want to use their code.