rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Render implied outlive bounds as inlay hints
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Description
This is likely not something we can do any time soon (as we lack a bunch of lifetime stuff still), but noting this down just to keep track of it. Rust today has a couple places where it implies outlive bounds for generic parameters and it would be pretty cool if we could visualize these in some form.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are identified. Start by determining which implied outlive bounds Rust exposes and how rust-analyzer currently represents inlay hints; done would be an agreed design and a working visualization with tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 15/100