Announcing lcnr as Types Team co-lead

Apr. 12, 2024 · Niko Matsakis on behalf of the types team

It is my great privilege to announce that lcnr will be serving as the new types team co-lead. The types team has adopted the "rolling leadership" model pioneered by the compiler team, and so lcnr is joining as the new "junior lead". The senior lead will be Jack Huey. I (Niko Matsakis) am going to be stepping back and I will continue to be active as a types team member.

Over the years lcnr has made numerous contributions to Rust, beginning with a focus on const generics but soon stepping over to the trait solver and type system. Their most recent contribution has been leading the push for a new trait solver. This work recently came to its first major milestone, stabilizing the new solver for use in coherence. This was a major goal for the types team and lcnr deserves a lot of credit for it, as well as compiler-errors and boxy.