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Many applications use SQLite as an embedded library; that's how it's intended to be used anyway.

It doesn't really jibe all that well with things like Python though, where you typically don't do that. But it's certainly not a "foreign concept" or "almost meaningless".

For e.g. Python you can still just set the desired parameters when connecting, which should usually be handled by the database connector/driver for you.