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A drop-in replacement for std::time::Instant that is faster and more accurate.

Is fast/fastant beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to fast/fastant to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
41
Forks
12
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
4
Dominant language
Rust
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
May 13, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 21, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
No beginner labels indexed
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

How to contribute to fast/fastant

  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 Apache-2.0 license.
  3. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Use of ctor break miri
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    fast/fastant#13 ·

  • Licensing situation is a mess
    Open

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

    fast/fastant#10 ·

  • Is necessary to introduce rdtsc_ordered?
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    fast/fastant#7 · 2 comments ·

  • Roadmap 0.2
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    fast/fastant#1 ·

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