Optional Curly Braces in JavaScript

[Sanford Whiteman]

> the only thing really missing (and which python has) is a builtin
> wasm-sqlite3 library (and specialized/secure file-api's to persist
> sqlite-db-blobs).

Browsers (WPWG, not this group) tried WebSQL. It failed because there
wasn't a competitive bake-off with any other implementations _besides_
SQLite.

If a browser vendor had used another engine, then SQLite might've won
the bake-off and now you'd have what you describe.