On the TiKV team we love the Rust and Go programming languages. They are the languages in which we write most of our software, with TiKV in Rust, and its sister project, TiDB, in Go. They have empowered us to build these fast and reliable distributed systems from the ground up, and iterate on them quickly and confidently. These languages are the future of systems programming. Creating reliable distributed systems like TiKV demands a lot from contributors — they not only need to be experts i...