I can't go into specifics, but I use LMDB for the commandline application I maintain for my employer. I also extended it into a web service for internal use. As long as you stick to the safe LMDB options, which are the default options, it's reliable. The documentation clearly outlines what safety guarantees you lose when you enable/disable certain options: http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/group__mdb.html#ga32a193c6bf4d7d5c5...
I had a situation where the web service's writes were slowing down to an unbearable crawl because the number of entries in the database were reaching tens of billions of entries. Thankfully, the users never experienced the slowness. The website stayed nice and fast, even though the background updates were extraordinarily slow. The issue was fixed by sharding the databases.
I think it was Rich Hickey who said "Programmers understand the benefits of everything, and the costs of nothing."
I'm also reminded of video game forums where everyone argued whether the Xbox or Playstation is better, not because they're genuinely interested in the pros and cons of each system, but because they only have an allowance to buy one of them, so they're trying to gaslight everyone and themselves into believing the one they picked is better. In the case of programming languages, there's only so much time in the day, so the people who post on this site go all-in on the programming language they picked, and will rationalize any reason they can think of to believe the language they picked is better.
This is a hot take, but programming languages haven't progressed since the 90's. We've been conditioned to believe that if you want to be a serious programmer, you have to either use C++-style RAII (which includes Rust), or garbage collection, and there's no in-between, and C programmers are dinosaurs who can be ignored.
Arena allocators are a great way to automatically manage memory allocations. You malloc a whole bunch of memory and release it all with a single free, which makes it much easier to reason about your program's memory safety.
And about Zig, you have an Arena Allocator out of the box: https://zig.guide/standard-library/allocators/ . And it's not just limited to that, you have debug allocators that detects memory leaks and gives you stack traces where they occurred.
This isn't to say that Zig is great at everything. I think Rust is great for things like kernels, high-frequency trading systems, and authentication servers where memory safety and performance is paramount. But for things like video games, memory leaks and buffer overflows aren't that big of a deal, and Zig's "Good Enough" approach is great for those types of applications.
To anyone reading this, please take the extra step beyond striking down age-verification laws, and start taking measures to prove to Congress that it's not needed.
Your nextdoor neighbor whose misbehaving child that's permanently on their phone? Help them out.
Your friend that joked about sending death threats to someone? Scold and report him.
That girl endlessly scrolling Instagram? Get her help.
Please take a step back and examine how insane the internet is and how it's affecting our everyday lives. Political violence and mental illness is increasing, and the internet is solely to blame for this.
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."
Federalist 51
We're all too familiar with the latter part of that quote, but we're completely oblivious to the former. At this point, we've all but proven that the government needs to step in and regulate internet access. And unfortunately for us, they're going to do it in the most dystopian, authoritarian way possible.
I want to be on the side of freedom and strike this bill down. But when it is struck down, everyone is going to cheer, go on their merry way, and continue to let demorilization, radicalization, and mental illness infect the psyche of the everyday human being, and do nothing about it. And then the cycle will repeat itself.
At this point, I actually hope this bill passes. Not because I want it to, but because maybe then everyone will stop using the internet for everything, and some sanity will return.
I had a situation where the web service's writes were slowing down to an unbearable crawl because the number of entries in the database were reaching tens of billions of entries. Thankfully, the users never experienced the slowness. The website stayed nice and fast, even though the background updates were extraordinarily slow. The issue was fixed by sharding the databases.