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Best not promote "Ordinary" Filmmaker; we won't derail this thread with all the details, but suffice to say there are reasons why he just reads out other peoples' headlines from rumour sites and the industry won't touch him. Stick to reputable sources.
Also, note that "they" have not "announced" anything. TheCameraInsider simply (and grammatically incorrectly) claimed that "a sales rep that handles some distribution of Canon lenses to certain retailers in a specific country" told their writer 'Spazz' about a new lens and "alluded" to there being two L-series 35s.
Again... best stick to reputable sources.
In any case, having two premium RF 35s makes sense, whichever way you slice it:
One of the chief complaints about all apodisation lenses is there's never a standard or wide lens to match with them, so either you have to do your entire shoot with the one focal length, which is rarely practical or desirable, or you have to mix lenses with very different renderings and get inconsistent results. The biggest problem the RF 85mm f/1.2L DS has is that it's alone; making a slightly-wide DS lens to match with the existing slightly-tele DS lens makes perfect sense, and being able to apply the DS coating to any lens of any length was one of the selling points of the DS technology when Canon introduced it. 35 is the 'natural' pairing with 85, since of the common, easily-marketable focal lengths, it's as close as you can get to double the diagonal FOV.
Or the other option is there are both a 35mm f/1.2 and an f/1.4 coming. Maybe one has IS, the other doesn't; maybe one is optimised for image quality while the other is optimised for size and/or focus. All sorts of combinations. In any case, many systems have multiple fast 50mm or equivalent lenses, so why not have multiple fast 35s?
There are of course other explanations. One such explanation is that TheCameraInsider and CanonRumors are reporting on inaccurate interpretations or otherwise flimsy word of mouth again; especially since CR came under new ownership, a lot of Canon news has become based on "trust me, bro", and most other sites have followed suit. (In fact, despite the recent dip in quality, CR is still arguably the most reliable source of Canon news around, simply by virtue of the fact that everyone and everywhere else spouts such rubbish, which is... well, just a bit sad, really.)
It could even be that Canon are simply going to keep making the EF 35mm f/1.4L—hence having two L-series 35s on the market—as it's been the top-selling L prime of the last decade, and many 9-to-5 pros and agencies have not and will not be switching to RF any time soon.
Which is all to say that there is no news, as of right now. Nothing has been announced. Nobody who can speak publicly actually knows what is coming. Nobody reputable has said anything. Maybe there are two RF 35s coming; maybe there aren't. Maybe there's an 8-800mm f/0.85 IS 2x Macro coming... I mean, it's technically not impossible, so we might as well report that as news...
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Can't really do that with the RF f/4 version, but I do like how super small and light it is. And it's sharper throughout the zoom range and across the frame... For low light I just go to ISO 6400. 
That sounds TERRIBLE for a lens!!! 
