We have renamed the unstable Generator trait to Coroutine and adjusted all terminology accordingly. If you want to see all 3800 modified lines of code, you can find the PR here.

Our Generator trait was effectively a coroutine already, so this change was long overdue. All nightly users using the Generator trait must now update their code to refer to the new feature gate and trait names.

What is the difference?

A generator is just a convenient way to write Iterator implementations. This means it's a coroutine that has no arguments and no return type. Instead when it returns, that means iteration is over, and the Iterator::next method returns None.

Coming full circle

This change is directly motivated for reintroducing generators, this time with simpler (async/await style) syntax for creating Iterators. Some discussion about this can be found in the gen fn rfc.

Of course such a massive change would be incomplete without the PR to immediately reintroduce a new concept with the name that was just removed, so here you can see the MVP for gen blocks that has very weird diagnostics and may panic on you if you poke it too much.