[scottlamb]

I'm a little surprised they're at all open to a rewrite in Rust:

> All that said, it is possible that SQLite might one day be recoded in Rust.

...followed by a list of reasons why they won't do it now. I think the first one ("Rust needs to mature a little more, stop changing so fast, and move further toward being old and boring.") is no longer valid (particularly for software that doesn't need async and has few dependencies), but the other ones probably still are.

I write Rust code and prefer to minimize non-Rust dependencies, but SQLite is the non-Rust dependency I mind the least for two reasons:

* It's so fast and easy to compile: just use the `rusqlite` crate with feature `bundled`. It builds the SQLite "amalgamation" (its entire code basically concatenated into a single .c file). No need to have bazel or cmake or whatever installed, no weird library dependency chains, etc.

* It's so well-tested that the unsafety of the language doesn't bother me that much. 100% machine branch coverage is amazing.