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This sounds like an excellent project, and I hope it continues to a production release.

I do have one qualm, though. SQLite is written in C, and if I were writing plugins for it, I would seriously consider myself bound to using C for them, regardless of the merits of the language. I can easily imagine myself trying to build an extended SQLite library where one plugin is written in Zig, another in Rust, and perhaps a third in Hare. A fourth plugin might be written in C, but be built using Meson. Yet another plugin written in C is built with Bazel. And here I come, writing my plugin in Chibi Scheme!

Eventually, the toolchain needed to build the library and all its plugins overflows.

I would strongly recommend that people who write plugins for programs or libraries give serious consideration to using the programming language(s) and build system(s) of the parent software.




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