[samsquire]

My learning style is piecemeal: I do a bit of that, a bit of another thing with the long term goal to combine everything I did into one project. It's proof of concept or prototype approach.

The experts are doing databases in C and C++ and Rust. But I'm not a C, Rust or C++ expert, so I need to start somewhere, where I am today.

I start small accomplishable goals to get the idea of the problem solution so I'm not distracted by boilerplate C, C++ or Rust. My multiversion concurrency control is in Java.

You might think all the things are easy but they're not easy to everyone. We have to start somewhere and one way to start is to write the parser in a simple language so you're not wrestling with memory management.

If I tried to do all the things you mentioned in C++, Rust or C it would be too much work in one step. I need to start small to have an achievable result.

Not everyone is Stonebraker or Linus Torvalds.