All of this sounds fantastic.
I can't donate my time, but I'd be happy to donate money to anyone taking on this effort.
On that note, I'm looking for more Rust crates and maintainers to donate to. I just started paying Bevy, and I'm looking for more areas of the Rust ecosystem that need it.
This language brings me immense business and personal value, and I'm happy to give back.
Bjorn3 for all their work on cranelift and working towards getting it to be a better debug compiler for rust.[1]
cwfitzgerald for wgpu. He took over as the head maintainer after kvark left Mozilla to go to Tesla.
winit maintainers, they're a core ecosystem crate but don't get that much support because windowing isn't flashy.