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by int_19h 1246 days ago
It's a manufactured issue that is rather absurd on its face. If SQLite is so popular that literally everyone ships it and nobody even wants to talk about writing an alternative, then take it and standardize it as is, or at least some sensible subset of it. It's probably the most open and portable codebase of notable size in widespread use worldwide, so any portability concerns are extremely hypothetical, while the productivity losses from not having a portable relational store in the browser are very real.