Generic associated types tracking issue

[nikomatsakis]

Metadata
Name	Generic Associated Types initiative
Owner	@jackh726
Liaison	@nikomatsakis

Purpose

Working towards support for Generic Associated types (rust-lang/rfcs#1598). This initial milestone focuses on getting a kind of MVP, which supports the following patterns:

TBD

Read more in the explainer.

Artifacts

• Accepted RFC: Generic associated types (associated type constructors) rfcs#1598

[danielhenrymantilla]

Would it be deemed useful to have a proc-macro implementation that would enable having lifetime-GATs on stable Rust?

[jackh726]

Would it be deemed useful to have a proc-macro implementation that would enable having lifetime-GATs on stable Rust?

imo, no. GATs are close to being able to be stabilized - certainly too close to merit adding what is essentially just a hack to get around some current limitations.

edit: But, this is also not the place to discuss this.