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by ufmace 2740 days ago
> A super easy example would be parsing data on say, a tiny microcontroller on an IOT device.

I mean, it's a point, but I don't think anybody is saying that SQLite should replace all data storage formats everywhere. If you're just storing a few dozen short text strings with keys, plain text is fine. I don't think you'd want to have a JSON parser on a tiny microcontroller either.