I think the emphasis was meant to be on "the main Rust community". I would hope that most of us would try our best not to misrepresent other people's hard work.

I think the emphasis was meant to be on "the main Rust community". I would hope that most of us would try our best not to misrepresent other people's hard work. I definitely agree that whilst Rust's generics are far nicer to work with thank duck-typed templates, there are still gaps when it comes to matching C++'s expressive metaprogramming. Templating over values, constexprs and variadic type parameter lists are the main ones. I do know that the former two are planned, but that will have to be after 1.0.