Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by TeMPOraL 1773 days ago
> WebDatabase, with or without a spec, boiled down to shipping SQLite. We didn't want the Web to depend on that.

Ironically, all the popular browsers already ship SQLite - they just not expose it directly. So, in a way, the Web already depends on SQLite. So does a lot of other technology - we're talking about one of the, if not the, most widely distributed pieces of software on the planet.
1 comments
roca 1772 days ago
That's true, but "in a way" does a lot of work there. "In a way" the Web already depends on the C++ standard library, but we aren't exposing that as a JS API.
link