A minimal SQLite wrapper

Wrapping SQLite's UTF-8 strings using Rust's FFI

Wrapping raw pointers to UTF-8 encoded text from SQLite allows offloading a lot of safety checks to the Rust compiler, but requires a lot of detailed insights into the workings of both SQLite and memory allocation.

Safely opening (and closing) an SQLite database

Wrapping a C library in Rust beyond the pure FFI interface is straightforward, but has a surprising amounts of details to consider.