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Cpp2Rust: Automatic Translation of C++ to Safe Rust

Is Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust merged 120 of 130 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
310
Forks
18
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
25
Avg merge
10h 18m
Merged PRs (30d)
125
Dominant language
Rust
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Oct 9, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 9, 2026
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  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
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  • std::string::append returns a full copy of the string
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    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 55/100

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#612 ·

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  • Hint in `std::map::emplace_hint` is ignored
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#611 ·

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  • Suboptimal translation for std::deque
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 79/100

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#610 ·

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  • Destructors of map elements not always closed.
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    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#609 ·

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  • Default constructors of ifstream and ofstream panic
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#608 ·

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  • Mode is ignored in constructor of ifstream and ofstream
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#607 ·

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  • Move/copy ctor and destructor do not run on std::vector reallocation
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#587 · 1 comment ·

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  • [perf] Constructors where `this` escapes are slow
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#582 · 2 comments ·

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  • Wrong translation for iterator into moved container
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#578 ·

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  • Cache results of matcher
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    • Is something wrong?
    performance

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#536 ·

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  • Destructors of global variables are not called
    May be free again Open
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    bug

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#379 · 1 reaction · 2 assignees ·

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  • Optimizer: replace RefCell with Cell for primitive types
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    performance

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#378 ·

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  • Bitfields are not translated
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#312 ·

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  • Self initialization doesn't work
    Open
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    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#248 · 2 comments ·

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  • Optimize Value<T>
    Open
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    performance

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust#1 ·

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