alt Hacker News> We (Oli, Niko, and Yosh) are excited to announce the start of the Keyword Generics Initiative, a new initiative 1 under the purview of the language team
https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/07/27/keyword-ge...
Maybe he's not on the language team (I haven't read enough into Rust governance structures to know definitively) but it's not like he's on some random person working on this. And yes, work takes time, I actually disagreed with his initial approach where his syntax was to have a bunch of effects before the function name, and everyone rightly mentioned how messy it was. So they should be taking it slow anyway.
The thing is that anyone can show up and spend time discussing ideas in Rust project spaces. From the outside it is easy to confuse that with actual movement toward landing changes in the language.
(The communication aspect of this is something that has bothered me many times in the past- even people who are lang team members often phrase things in a way that makes it sound like something is on its way in, when it's still just in the stage of "we're kinda noodling with ideas.")