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Sebastian Jeltsch 6cbea390fb Herculean migration from libsql's rust bindings to plain rusqlite+SQLite.

There's a couple of reasons:

* As for the rust bindings: they're sub-par to rusqlite, though
  rusqlite is amazing. Even libsql-server uses rusqlite over their own
  bindings. The bindings are missing features such as update hooks
  and the hard-coded execution model suffers from lock congestion.
* We've fixed bugs (e.g. trivial null ptr accesses went unnoticed),
  raised issues, and tried to add missing functionality such as update
  hooks. It's unclear if the rust-bindings are a priority or covered by
  the principles laid out in the libsql manifesto. From the outside it
  looks like focus has shifted to https://github.com/penberg/limbo.
* As for the C-libsql fork for SQLite itself, it's getting more and
  more outdated (2024-01-30 (3.45.1)) and it's unclear when and if the
  ideas from the manifesto will manifest.

Looking forward this opens the door for TrailBase to:

* Bundle more recent versions of SQLite
* Implement more performant, better scaling execution models.
* Implement realtime APIs for subscribing to data changes.

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