Steven Gonsalvez

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DoltLite: A SQLite fork with Git-style version control, built with 2k agent PRs

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SQLite fork built with 2k agent PRs, trending

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My baby is growing up. Just five months after launch, DoltLite is Beta, version 0.50.0. DoltLite started as a lark. I needed a pet project to test with Steve Yeggeâs innovative agent orchestrator, Gas Town. I wanted a real problem, not a toy. We wanted an embedded version of Dolt for years but rewriting Doltâs storage engine in C or Rust was a bridge too far. SQLite seemed like a logical host for that engine. Could a team of agents pull it off? It only took about 2,000 pull requests but DoltLite going Beta proves a team of agents certainly could. This article explains what DoltLite is and what

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DoltLite trades speed (1.2-4x slower than SQLite) and rigorous testing for git-like versioning, solving a problem already solved by file copy or CoW filesystems.

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