What: Turso finished rewriting SQLite in Rust and is now targeting Postgres for the same treatment.
So What: SMBs rely on Postgres for hiring tools, payroll systems, and applicant tracking. A faster, memory-safe rewrite could mean cheaper hosting and fewer crashes, but migration risk is real if tooling breaks.
What to Watch: Whether managed Postgres providers (AWS RDS, Supabase) adopt or resist the Rust fork in production environments.
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