Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)

1. libsqlfs

   1 10 617 0.0 C

   a library that implements a POSIX style filesystem on top of an SQLite database

   

   Maybe there isn't a database engine that explicitly supports file system daya structures, but you could implement a filesystem in the application layer using SQLite as a storage mechanism.

   Here's an example of someone doing that very thing.

   https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs

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3. sqlfs

   2 1 19 10.0 Python

   Sqlite FUSE filesystem with sqlcipher support

   

   For those looking for a more up to date alternative, with a non-hardcoded DB file path, try https://github.com/greenbender/sqlfs (not affiliated, just had a look in this area a few weeks ago)

4. nix-1p

   3 7 938 4.7 Nix

   A (more or less) one page introduction to Nix, the language.

   

   Wouldn't say there's a steep learning curve for the language itself, it's pretty easy to get a grasp around it imo. Here's a helpful page I used to quickly get familiar with the language: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p

   What's rather messy about Nix is nixpkgs with its helper functions all over the place alongside pretty shallow / non-existent documentation (which is unrelated to the language). Thankfully they've started to work on that recently: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/documentation-team-flattening-...

5. nix-book

   4 5 209 0.6

   Discontinued Nix documentation – centralized community online learning resource for Nix

   

   Wouldn't say there's a steep learning curve for the language itself, it's pretty easy to get a grasp around it imo. Here's a helpful page I used to quickly get familiar with the language: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p

   What's rather messy about Nix is nixpkgs with its helper functions all over the place alongside pretty shallow / non-existent documentation (which is unrelated to the language). Thankfully they've started to work on that recently: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/documentation-team-flattening-...

6. camellia

   5 3 32 0.0 Go

   A lightweight, persistent, hierarchical key-value store, written in Go

   

   The concept of a system-wide hierarchical key-value store is actually very useful is some environments. I had to develop one some time ago [1] for an embedded system, since is super useful to have a single point of truth/configuration/state, if every application agrees on using it (which is the case in such systems were every application is known in advance and developed in house)

   [1] https://github.com/debevv/camellia

7. dirs-rs

   6 3 726 3.5 Rust

   Discontinued moved to https://codeberg.org/dirs/dirs-rs

   

   There are several libraries that handle directory for you in the appropriate OS-specific manner.

   One Rust example being https://github.com/dirs-dev/dirs-rs

   > The library provides the location of these directories by leveraging the mechanisms defined by

   > the XDG base directory and the XDG user directory specifications on Linux and Redox

   > the Known Folder API on Windows

   > the Standard Directories guidelines on macOS

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