Add const generics 2025h2 goal #313
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| | `adt_const_params` design meeting | [lang] | | |
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So, wearing my @rust-lang/lang hat for a moment, I'm keen to see this work go foward, but I also am aware we've had some miscommunication in this area for a while now. Maybe it'd be good to start with a more general design meeting, basiically starting out with a doc that tries to give everybody a general grounding in how const generics works, how it interacts with const eval, what some of the challenges are? There wouldn't be any decisions to make, it'd just be a knowledge sharing (and documenting) session.
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Knowing what I know about adt_const_params, a there-focused meeting could still be a good general meeting because discussing adt_const_params re: getting it ready towards landing does imply summarizing the state of "what we can do in const generics without question, and what will require design decisions to advance". Does that still rhyme with what you have in mind?
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Could be, yes. Put another way, I just don't see us getting through everything in 1 meeting, not really.
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Yes. Notably, this proposal kinda elides, by focusing on the next 6 months, that already some things were cut out from adt_const_params as a feature to get it down towards things that we could ship sooner. So maybe the meeting would also (briefly) discuss the longer trajectory and why those things are blocked and not shipping with other things.
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We can put another meeting on here that seems reasonable 🤔
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I think "talk about the challenges" doesn't really work if we were to go into much depth though. the main thing i would expect an adt_const_params design meeting to involve would be covering all of the challenges involved. and I expect that to take up an entire meeting. talking about the challenges of all const generics features in anything other than a very shallow way is likely not possible 🤔
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