[junon]

sqlite is not a serialization format though.

[IshKebab]

Yes it is. They even have a page about it: https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html

It's a format. You can serialise data to it. What about it isn't a serialisation format?

Obviously I wouldn't recommend it for small amounts of data, e.g. for RPC calls. But when you need to store lots of data it's much better than JSON or binary JSON style formats.

[nly]

But it makes a perfectly reasonable application file format. Coupled with schema evolution and an ORM it's pretty sublime.

[kortex]

It's a data format which can be expressed as a contiguous series of bytes and sent/stored; it's a serialization format.

This is not just nit-picking, it's been used precisely as such:

https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...

[junon]

Sorry, should have been specific. It's not used as a _wire_ serialization format.