NCncruces·Oct 21, 2026
Ongoing draft: https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/pull/438
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ncruces / go-sqlite3
go-sqlite3
Go bindings to SQLite using wasm2go
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15 sourcesShameless plug: if you value Go, and CGO_ENABLED=0, and SQLite, and are worried about C in a web server and RCEs, may I interest you in my SQLite driver?
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3
I just wrote up the security goals of the tool I use to translate C to Go: https://github.com/ncruces/wasm2go/blob/main/SECURITY.md
I obviously can't make any promises, as it's just a personal pet project, but those are the goals, and they do catch memory corruption bugs in practice: https://sqlite.org/bugs/forumpost/543f94984b
In A Modern Web App in CIt's easy to do a VFS that handles instant forking (snapshots).
Here's an in-memory one I made (pretty useful for unit tests): https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/tree/main/vfs/mvcc
The problem DoltLite solves is merging, not forking.
In DoltLite: A SQLite fork with Git-style version control, built with 2k agent PRsAgreed. I went the route of building on top of something else. Sill lots of fun.
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3
And I'm still having fun.
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/pull/421
In TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value storeA comment is not something I can get programmatically through `sqlite3_column_decltype` or `sqlite3_table_column_metadata`.
I can use either API to trigger bool and time handling in my Go driver.
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/blob/main/driver/drive...
In Prefer strict tables in SQLiteThere's also my take on this [1], which does machine translation from C to Go via Wasm using [2].
It's a somewhat less faithful translation, since I manually ported the VFS (SQLite OS abstraction layer).
OTOH, each SQLite connection is sandboxed (can't access/corrupt Go memory, or other SQLite connections). And it should run everywhere Go runs.
1: https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3
2: https://github.com/ncruces/wasm2go
In sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3And here it is: https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/pull/375
In Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)I've been following what you've done on wasm2go ever since you moved https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 off wazero and onto wasm2go. Absolutely brilliant work! Crazy, but brilliant. Hope to contribute some time soon!
In Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)GitHub CI lets me test my package, for free, in all these:
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/wiki/Support-matrix
Which is actually useful.
In Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy peopleI guess someone read the “announcement” that I'm now confident enough this will work that I'll be switching my mildly popular SQLite bindings to use it: https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/discussions/361
If you're interested in generated sample code, see: https://github.com/ncruces/wasm2go/tree/main/testdata
If you're interested in using wasm2go, but feel that something is missing, I'm listening.
Caveat: I don't plan to implement any host modules myself (e.g. WASI), but you're welcome to build your own.
I'm open to supporting additional Wasm proposals, if feasible, and if they get some use. Examples: I don't think tail-calls are feasible; I assume exception handling could be useful for C++; and I'm definitely interested in dynamic linking support.
In Ncruces/wasm2go: A WASM to Go translatorSimilar in vein with how my SQLite driver fully replaces the filesystem access layer (VFS) with Go code, and makes it available as Go APIs you can implement (including, in read-only mode, with any io.ReaderAt).
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/blob/main/vfs/readervf...
In Show HN: Go-duckfs – making DuckDB quack like a GopherYou have at least 2 alternatives that don't require CGO (disclosure, I made the second one):
https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/sqlite
https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3
In Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLitePOSIX locks are insane enough that when I reimplemented the SQLite file system API, I gave up on them: https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/tree/main/vfs#file-loc...
In Everything you never wanted to know about file locking (2010)To add to the author's list of examples, the regex test site Regex 101 (http://regex101.com/) relies on WebAssembly. To verify this in Firefox, you can set javascript.options.wasm to false, and you will be instructed to use a browser supporting WebAssembly.
If you're willing to risk some safety guarantees, then you can embed SQLite in Go without cgo by using WASM builds of SQLite. In particular, this package: https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3
Note: the risk here is that it's unclear how well-tested SQLite WASM builds are compared to native builds for things like data integrity. With that said, in most of my personal projects using Go, I frequently reach for the WASM builds because it keeps builds fast and easy.
Also, I want to mention that I have seen web apps that are C# / Blazor programs compiled into WebAssembly. The accessibility
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is predictably terrible, but I have seen at least one such web app in the wild. I assume this is largely why one doesn't encounter WASM web frameworks often. In any case, WASM is surprisingly useful in many niches, and that's kind of the problem for WASM's visibility: the niches where I find WASM useful are almost completely disjoint from each other. But it's a solid technology nowadays. The only real gripe I have is the fact that only wasmtime seems to fully support wasm32-wasip2. You can actually compile quite a lot of Rust backend stuff into WASM and run that instead of a container. Not that this is particularly useful, but I've found it interesting as an exercise.
Indeed.
I implemented a gap sequence not analyzed here (Gonnet & Baeza-Yates) and it's amazing how compact Shell sort can be.
C:
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/blob/main/sqlite3/libc...
Go:
https://github.com/ncruces/sort/blob/main/shell/shell.go
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