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Rewrite Postgres in Rust, Then Look Forward to Death
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Rewrite Postgres in Rust, Then Look Forward to Death

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A dark-mode X screenshot of two tweets from Glauber Costa (@glcst). The pinned Jul 16 announcement reads: "I am excited to announce that we are officially writing a new version of Postgres. In Rust - and creating the LLVM of databases in the process. In the span of a year, we have rewritten SQLite. Keeping the compatibility, increasing its feature set. MVCC, Types, (Live)" with Show more, 177 replies, 496 reposts, 4.2K likes, and 480K views. Directly below, a tweet from 4h ago says: "I have no desire to be on this Earth forever. I in fact look forward to the day of my death." (3 replies, 1 repost, 21 likes, 1.2K views). The juxtaposition treats Turso's Postgres-in-Rust moonshot as a project so large it makes death look like a feature.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Rewriting Postgres in Rust is the rare project where "I look forward to the day of my death" reads as both a personal statement and the release plan.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Rewriting Postgres in Rust is the rare project where "I look forward to the day of my death" reads as both a personal statement and the release plan.

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