The most trusted code on Earth is being rewritten in Rust
A new project called Turso is rewriting SQLite from scratch in Rust to make it fully open source and concurrent.
“If someone told you they were rewriting SQLite in Rust, I think you'd have trouble figuring out if they were one of the smartest people you ever met or one of the dumbest.”
Fireship covers Turso, an effort by two experienced engineers to rewrite SQLite from scratch in Rust to make it truly open source and add features like concurrent writers. It's a notable systems-engineering and open-source story but carries little direct AI industry signal.