
AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock
Cloud giant AWS has a lust for Rust Programming Language so needs top minds and wants them to advance the language. Amazon Web Services has quietly revealed that it has hired Rust compiler co-lead Felix Klock. AWS's Matt Assay wrote that the company "increasingly builds critical infrastructure like the Firecracker VMM using Rust because its out-of-the-box features reduce the time and effort needed to reach Amazon's high security bar, while still delivering runtime performance similar to C and C++." AWS likes Rust so much it sponsored the project and said the company has even "started hiring Rust and Tokio committers…