04. What language should you use for Lambda?
AWS Bites1 Loka 2021

04. What language should you use for Lambda?

In this episode Eoin and Luciano talk about programming languages in the context of Lambda. What language should you use? Actually we really answer the question “what languages do WE like to use in the context of Lambda”. Be ready for a lot of strong opinions in this episode!

In this episode we mentioned the following resources:

- AWS Lambda Rust Runtime: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime

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