[eternityforest]

I'm kind of glad this didn't happen . It might have been nice if there was a performance boost, but it would have taken years for 4 to get to the level of trust 3 has, and possibly caused confusion for devs.

At this point sqlite3 is basically like UTF-8 or even ASCII. It will be there in basically any decent language. It's the default choice of embedded database.

Having 2 versions might de facto deprecate sqlite3 in some environments. There might be transition issues. And people would wonder if there will be a sqlite5.

The one thing I would have liked to see, is a sqlite-like database that operates on folders instead of files, and is optimized for being used in a modern multidevice environment, where files can't be efficiently modified, just overwritten, you don't have locking, you might want to version control things, and you want to reuse filenames if possible to avoid cluttering sync indexes with tombstones.

Other than that, sqlite3 seems to be good enough.