Long Term Support
Long Term Support
The intent of the developers is to support SQLite through the year 2050.
At this writing, 2050 is still 34 years in the future. Nobody knows what will happen in that time, and we cannot absolutely promise that SQLite will be viable or useful that far out. But we can promise this: we plan as if we will be supporting SQLite until 2050. That long-term outlook affects our decisions in important ways.
Cross-platform → SQLite runs on any platform with an 8-bit byte, two's complement 32-bit and 64-bit integers, and a C compiler. It is actively tested on all currently popular CPUs and operating systems. The extreme portability of the SQLite code will help it remain viable on future platforms.
Aviation-grade testing → Every machine-code branch instruction is tested in both directions. Multiple times. On multiple platforms and with multiple compilers. This helps
