In 2022, San Francisco company Turso forked SQLite. In late 2024, it formally announced a plan to rewrite SQLite in Rust. That project, named Limbo, now counts well over 100 contributors. Earlier this month, Turso brought one of the most prolific contributors on as a staff software engineer.
So far, so normal.
Where the story deviates from the usual is that new hire Preston Thorpe logs on to the remote job from a correctional facility in the US state of Maine, where he expects to be resident until at least 2026.
"There are obviously practical issues, like he can't come to our in person company meetings," Turso CEO Glauber Costa tells The Stack.
