rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer
completion relevance should prefer associated functions over associated methods.
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Description
This one is a bit subjective, but it would be preferable if in this circumstance, we should make associated functions more relevant than associated methods, with a bias to suggest new/default with the most relevance, and with_ methods after.

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Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by tracing rust-analyzer's completion relevance handling for associated functions and methods, then reproduce the screenshot's scenario and compare the ordering of new/default functions with with_ methods; done means the preferred ordering is covered by a focused completion test.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100