Amazon posts article on Rust, Go tech lead: don’t “pull the plug” on us
8 min readJul 7, 2022
Recently, the “Sustainability with Rust” article was published on the official Amazon blog, illustrating through research and comparison that Rust outperforms other languages in terms of sustainability. The article was subsequently covered by ZDNet. Following the ZDNet story, Go technical lead Russ Cox sent out 14 tweets saying that the article was seriously misleading about the Go language.
The story raised a lot of eyebrows and sparked a big “Rust or Go” debate. So, what happened?
