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The license is "Copyright 2024 the Limbo authors". How is that possible if Limbo is based on a rewrite? Do they claim a clean room implementation? It seems wise of SQLite to close down their test suite. That's a great idea I wish I had heard about earlier.
I’ll take the faster c version anyday over the rust. How are those conditional if statements working for you all?
The benchmarks in the post indicate that Limbo is more performant than SQLite, not less.
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>> The SQLite3 business model is that SQLite3 is open source This is going to sound pedantic, but SQLite is not Open Source. It's Public Domain. The distinction is subtle, but it is important.
Details if anyone is interested: https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source
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Related: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1ha7uyi/memorysafe_pn... C libraries aren't automatically the fastest option, there's a lot of C code which has stagnated on the performance front but is still widely used because it's battle tested and known to be robust by C standards.
There's still an element of truth in the idea that C is going to be faster by default. There's simply a much lower bar to writing fast (and unsafe) C. Fast Rust demands considerably more thoughtfulness from the programmer (at least for me).
But C lacks many modern data structures, which are critical for performance on modern hardware and bigger input data.
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No. At least according to the Open Source Initiative, public domain is not open source: https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source
Any definition of open source that doesn't include the public domain is out of touch with how real people use the words "open source" and is therefore useless. You can make up any definition you want, but if you insist on calling elephants "bananas", I'm not going to take you seriously
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No. At least according to the Open Source Initiative, public domain is not open source: https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source
Any definition of open source that doesn't include the public domain is out of touch with how real people use the words "open source" and is therefore useless. You can make up any definition you want, but if you insist on calling elephants "bananas", I'm not going to take you seriously
In your analogy we're not the ones calling elephants bananas, you are. We want to keep calling one bananas and the other elephants. You are suggesting that since elephants are similar to bananas you can simply use either word.
Legally, Open Source and Public Domain are -very- different animals. Open Source comes eith a copyright, and a license (which has requirements), public domain does not.
Of course public domain and open source are both "shipped as source code". Then again so is a fair bit of proprietary software. That doesn't make it open source either.
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Public domain is a form of open source.
No. At least according to the Open Source Initiative, public domain is not open source: https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source
Conversely, open source doesn't necessarily mean "free to use without encumbrance." There are many open-source licenses that forbid certain uses (e.g. Business Source License). On the other hand, a work in the public domain is free to be used by all without restriction.
A better analysis of open source vs. public domain would be in the form of a square, where one dimension would be the right to use the work, and the other dimension would be the ability to obtain and contribute source code.
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No. At least according to the Open Source Initiative, public domain is not open source: https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source
Any definition of open source that doesn't include the public domain is out of touch with how real people use the words "open source" and is therefore useless. You can make up any definition you want, but if you insist on calling elephants "bananas", I'm not going to take you seriously