Status of GAT (and Chalk)

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What is the current status for generic associated types? I found mostly outdated sources/issues/... for this. Can we expect them any soon?

Seems to be as GATs would come with Chalk(?).
Same issue here: Didn't find any recent news on this.

Is there so much left to be done and it is just unclear when it will be ready or am I missing something?

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The RFC for the Rust 2019 roadmap has been posted:

GAT (Generic Associated Types) are mentioned explicitly but no date is given yet. But it should be in 2019.

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Were there any updates in this regard? Some links in this roadmap are dead now, e.g. the RLS 2.0 one. And no recent blogposts about Chalk either.

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Not sure about GAT specifically, but for chalk the current status I think is:

  • chalk exists and is actively developed
  • it doesn't currently handle all the things rust has
  • the core of chalk is integrated into rustc under a feature flag
  • the core and the rest of chalk is integrated into rust-analyzer, which gives chalk some real-world testing.
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