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Rust Compilers Good First Issues
Rust issues about Compilers: the project is written in Rust and the issue is about Compilers. The list opens on the ones we rated beginner-friendly.
Compilers
- Open issues
- 29.2k
- New this week
- 992
- Nobody on it yet
- 26.4k
- Average difficulty
- 4.1/5
What this list is like
- Average annotated difficulty: 4.1/5 across 34,665 issues.
- 3% of 34,665 time estimates are one day or less.
Updated Nov 2, 2026.
About Compilers
Compilers and interpreters turn source code into something a machine can run. Work here includes parsers, type checkers, code generation, optimisation passes and language tooling.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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bug devex good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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diagnostics good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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diagnostics good first issue testing
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 80/100
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diagnostics good first issue testing
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100
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diagnostics good first issue testing
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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diagnostics good first issue testing
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100
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diagnostics good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100
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diagnostics good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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diagnostics good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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diagnostics good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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diagnostics good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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diagnostics good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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diagnostics good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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diagnostics good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100
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diagnostics good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100
calcit-lang/calcit#2538 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 65/100
NomicFoundation/slang#2336 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 4 days
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bug
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
Maintainers usually reply within 3 days
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LIMIT inputs are named MIN/MAX instead of the standard MN/MX, so LIMIT(MN := ...) does not resolveOpen
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
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bug parser semantic
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100
swc-project/swc-next#1330 ·
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bug parser
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100
swc-project/swc-next#1324 ·
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bug parser
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
swc-project/swc-next#1323 ·
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bug parser
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
swc-project/swc-next#1297 ·
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bug parser related: Node.js amaro
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100
swc-project/swc-next#1292 ·
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bug parser
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
swc-project/swc-next#1290 ·
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bug parser
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100
swc-project/swc-next#1289 ·
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bug parser
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
swc-project/swc-next#1288 ·
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lane:core todo:ticket
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100
cucapra/calyx-libm#4 · 1 reaction ·
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bug scope:types
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
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bug scope:types
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 73/100
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 78/100
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A-gca C-experience-report
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100
rust-lang/project-const-generics#124 · 1 comment ·
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beginner-friendly dx good first issue parser typechecker
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100
NekomyaDev/nudge#163 ·
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beginner-friendly enhancement good first issue rust typechecker
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100
NekomyaDev/nudge#161 ·
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enhancement scope:diagnostics scope:syntax
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 77/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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Bug Library Support Semantic Analysis Standard Library
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100
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Bug Diagnostics Parsing Semantic Analysis
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
paritytech/polkavm#442 ·
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policy-compiler
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 67/100
aranya-project/aranya-core#861 · 3 comments ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
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bug P2
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
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grammar selfhost sev-3
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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selfhost sev-6
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
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frontend sev-3
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100
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frontend sev-4
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100
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choose vm on an empty program is accepted with runtime no_runtime, a pair the code calls impossibleOpenfrontend sev-4
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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- How many Compilers issues are open here?
- 29,216 open issues: 992 opened in the last seven days, and 26,416 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
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