Ergonomic Self-Referential Types for Rust — Yosh Wuyts — Blog

via yosh (is out of office) (@yosh@toot.yosh.is): New blog post: Ergonomic Self-Referential Types for Rust

Yosh Wuyts sketches what it would take to make self-referential types in Rust genuinely ergonomic: 'self lifetimes, in-place construction, an !Move marker in the type system, and safe phased initialization without the option-dance. It’s an early exploration rather than a finished design, but it’s a useful map of how several proposed features could combine to replace the awkwardness of Pin.

Ergonomic Self-Referential Types for Rust — Yosh Wuyts — Blog