Include the "periodic table" into the official docs

[nodakai]

Why don't you officially include this excellent "periodic table of Rust types" into, say, the top of the pointer guide? (It's under cc-by-4.0.)

[brson]

I am a big fan of this work and would be happy to link to it somewhere prominent, and potentially even pull it into tree.

cc @steveklabnik

[huonw]

cc @lifthrasiir

(It's awesome that the two 'proposed' features there are now in the compiler!)

[steveklabnik]

I like it and I don't. I think it's useful, but it was also used as a 'OMG Rust is so complex'.

I'd imagine that it'd go in the Manual somewhere.=

[aturon]

Wow, I love this, and would love to see it pulled into official docs in some way.

[Kimundi]

While I like the table, I think it needs to be refactored a bit now that the two proposed features landed. Specifically, DST and function types could get de-emphasize and move into a auxiliary table of common type combinations.

[lifthrasiir]

I share the same feeling with @steveklabnik, that the table may possibly discourage new users without further tweaks. I have no problem with refactoring or tweaking the table, so feel free to experiment with it. :)

Some concern about licensing: is CC-by 4.0 compatible with the current documentation license (Apache 2.0 or MIT)? I guess so, but of course IANAL.

[steveklabnik]

This table is now out of date. Is this worth trying to resurrect? I still have complexity worry here.

[sinistersnare]

Regardless if it is included or not, I would love to see it updated for DST and unboxed closures to be ticked on by default (or remove the boxes because they are permanent)

[lifthrasiir]

I currently have no good idea to restructure the table, but don't mind if there is a contribution. I'll at least mark the page as outdated. I've updated the table to at least reflect the status quo for 1.0.0-alpha.

[sinistersnare]

Does the page have a source repo? Or is it only just a single html page?

[lifthrasiir]

@sinistersnare It's a single page (including the CSS) sans a small PNG file.

[steveklabnik]

After thinking about this a long time, I'm not sure where it goes, I'm afraid of the perception of complexity, and so I'm going to just give this a close. Thanks.