Liteparser
a complete SQLite parser in C
Details
- External ID
- 47335700
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Liteparser
- Website domain
- substack.com
- Launched
- March 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1070110701107011
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- sqlite parser in c
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Implementing a fully compliant SQLite grammar parser in pure C requires deep compiler theory and mastery of SQLite's extensive, idiosyncratically complex SQL dialect.
What it would actually take: Building a complete SQLite parser requires hand-writing a recursive descent parser or developing a deterministic LALR parser (like Lemon/Bison) adhering strictly to SQLite's dialect specifications. It involves managing an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) in C with manual memory allocation, robust syntax error recovery, and extensive test suites matching the SQLite official test harness. This demands specialized systems programming skills and deep formal language/compiler expertise.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #577 of 653 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 131 days after the earliest competitor.
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