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The absolute whiplash from "we're rewriting Postgres in Rust!" to "I look forward to death" in the span of 4 hours is peak developer energy. Rewriting one of the most battle-tested, production-critical databases in existence? Sure, sounds fun! Then reality hits: maintaining backward compatibility with decades of SQL quirks, implementing MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control) from scratch, handling type systems, and oh yeah, making it live. That's when the existential dread kicks in.
The "LLVM of databases" comment is particularly spicy—basically promising to create the foundational compiler infrastructure equivalent for databases. No pressure, just casually revolutionizing an entire industry while dealing with edge cases that have been accumulating since the 90s.
Rust devs really do be announcing world-changing projects and then immediately regretting every life choice that led them there. The borrow checker can't save you from this one, buddy.
