Deep dive into Turso, the "SQLite rewrite in Rust"

Turso, a new Rust-made spin on the tiny database that lives inside your phone and laptop, dropped a bold promise: keep the familiar SQLite file format but add modern comforts like built‑in encryption and real multi-writer support (think: more than one person editing at once). The blog’s human vibe got applause—one reader literally thanked the author for not sounding like a bot. But the crowd quickly split into camps. The loudest chorus? “Why not just Postgres?” with multiple folks pointing at pglite.dev, a Postgres-in-a-box meant to embed inside apps just like SQLite. Cue the classic internet line: “Did you actually click the link?” as commenters spar over whether pglite already solves this.

Then came the plot twist: confusion over Turso’s supposed “networked mode.” The post says it can run inside your app or as a server you connect to, but one skeptic demanded receipts: where is that in the docs? Another voice chimed in that pglite runs in browser‑friendly tech (WebAssembly), so if you want “runs everywhere,” Postgres might crash the Turso party. In short, the community is split between Rusty optimism (safer, cleaner, faster) and Postgres pragmatism, with a side of “show me the docs” energy and a sprinkle of “thank you for being human.”