His project is cool. Students could use it as an example of porting code. Companies could switch to it, if it works. There are hundreds of reasons why people may want it, so it's awesome he's publishing one. Something needs to be done to get interest and then adoption.

Just keep using the proper Postgres project if it makes more sense to you. But notice that this isn't just a strict translation, it actually makes changes (moving from process to thread based design, for instance). Time will tell if people find these changes beneficial or if the original remains preferable.

It's also worth noting, that while you are able to use LLM's to produce your own translation, he's actually done it. There's value in actually putting in the work.

This isn't a unique situation at all. Many Postgres extensions are developed and maintained by a single person, and may therefore be avoided by more conservative users, even if they offer some technical advantages. To each, their own.

There’s no claim being made that your rewrite cannot be better.

He has provided benchmark results which provide a dimension amongst which to measure your rewrite. If you can do better by all means post your rewrite.

Finally, these kind of projects can eventually over time become projects that are actively used. Postgres is not some entity that existed before the universe was created; it was also created by someone and then eventually adoption picked up over time.

Came here to the same thing. I did something similar (but bolder, it doesn't slavishly copy Postgres and is based on current DB research papers and the like, and other bits I've been exposed to over the years). It has a full TPC-C-esque benchmark suite, replication, embedded v8/JavaScript relations/stored procedures, a giant suite of regression tests, it kicks the crap out of a lot of existing OLTP DB stuff out there. And I personally do have a background in commercial DB development.

But I choose not to publish it or promote it for many of the reasons you mention above (and more)

... For one, if "I" can do it, so can a hundred other people. And all the bold claims behind it would need to be backed up and supported and it promoted, etc, which is a whole pile of time that doesn't involve writing code.

It's the organization around a project that matters, not the code. It's not the 90s anymore w/ people piling into MySQL because it was the only option. People aren't going to be trusting your software with their data, if they can't trust you.

And unless someone is going to dump a pile of money or something on [me|them], I don't have the ability to build that organization ... as I need to feed my family... Nor am I willing to put my personal reputation on the line by putting up a huge quickly written application and then someone finding something in it I can't explain.

So like probably 500 other projects I have it sitting in a private repo.

It's a very weird time right now. "Technical" excellence isn't the important part. Organizational excellence is. This was always the case but it's more so now.

... In the meantime, if anybody has angel investment to burn, I have something potentially better/more-exciting than this guy's project but... see above...

> If you can do a Rust rewrite with AI, I can create one as well.

Translations are a lot more likely to be error-free and robust, as the original data structures and algorithms have been battle tested.