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One year of moderation
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One year of moderation by Oli Scherer and Antonio Piraino. We will talk about how moderation works in the Rust project and its challenges across the project (in different venues) over the past year. We will give a quick overview about the tools we use and those we wish to have. About Oli Scherer (he/they): Oli started contributing to Rust around the 1.0 release, because attempting to replicate Ada's subtypes showed that const eval just wasn't up to it yet. In 2018 they became a compiler team m
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Adding Pattern Types to the Type System
RustNLOli Scherer -- Representing pattern types in the type system in a coherent way has a lot of interesting parts that no other types have had so far. I’ll talk about the lowering process from AST, over HIR, to the type system and finally into layout information. I’ll finish by explaining why generic pattern types are very incomplete so far and how we are planning to support them properly.