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The_Colonel
1400 days ago
It's kind of funny to see a claim that the most widely deployed database in the world is useful only for toy projects.
https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
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bmacho
1400 days ago
I guess there are more toy projects than serious ones.
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The_Colonel
1399 days ago
Yeah, I mean MacOS, Android, iOS, Chrome, Firefox ... all typical toy projects.
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bot41
1400 days ago
sheesh lets hope there are no vulnerabilities in there
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colejohnson66
1400 days ago
SQLite has an
608 times more
lines of code for tests than the original code![0] I’d wager it’s the highest test/production ratio there is.
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https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
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The_Colonel
1399 days ago
Most of those tests are generated. It's wrong to focus on this metric IMO.
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colejohnson66
1399 days ago
Auto generated or not, the point being made, in regards to @bot41's comment, was that SQLite is thoroughly tested.
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The_Colonel
1398 days ago
It's well tested, but that's still not a guarantee that there are no security issues. Latest acknowledged CVE bug is a month old:
https://www.sqlite.org/cves.html
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