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• update and document Project Goal lifecycle

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  Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

  rust-lang/goals#785 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026

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• Move manual tooling workflow into CI

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  rust-lang/goals#783 · Opened Sep 17, 2026

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• search on project goal page shows archived goals above new ones

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  rust-lang/goals#771 · Opened Aug 28, 2026

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• Allocators 1.0

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  rust-lang/goals#762 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 19, 2026

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• C interop: `Complex<T>`

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  rust-lang/goals#761 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 19, 2026

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• Polymorphic code generation experiment

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  C-tracking-issue Roadmap Goal T-compiler T-types

  rust-lang/goals#758 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 14, 2026

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• `f16b` Primitive Type

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  rust-lang/goals#757 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 13, 2026

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• End-to-End Executable Rust Specification

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  rust-lang/goals#749 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 4, 2026

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• meta: allow team nominations of PRs

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

  rust-lang/goals#743 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2026

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• Process-Safe Rustup Toolchain Operations

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  rust-lang/goals#736 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 27, 2026

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• Contracts: primitive ownership assertions

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  rust-lang/goals#734 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 21, 2026

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• "Help wanted" directive breaks link references

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  rust-lang/goals#717 · Opened Jul 8, 2026

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• Specify the funding contact in the funding table

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  rust-lang/goals#714 · Opened Jul 8, 2026

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• Reintroduce a FCW system to borrowck

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  rust-lang/goals#713 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 8, 2026

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• Library Trait Evolution Experiment

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  rust-lang/goals#712 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 8, 2026

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• Allow turbofishing late bound vars

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  rust-lang/goals#711 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 8, 2026

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• Specify champions in the ask table

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  rust-lang/goals#710 · Opened Jul 6, 2026

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• View types experiment

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  rust-lang/goals#702 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 29, 2026

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• C interop: `f80`, `f128` and `c_longdouble`

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  rust-lang/goals#701 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 29, 2026

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• libc 1.0 release readiness

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  rust-lang/goals#657 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Wasm Components

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  rust-lang/goals#656 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Stabilizing `f16`

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  rust-lang/goals#655 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Stabilize the Try trait

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  rust-lang/goals#654 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Stabilize never type (`!`)

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  rust-lang/goals#653 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Specialization: minimal implementation

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  rust-lang/goals#652 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Stabilize FLS Release Cadence

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  C-tracking-issue Roadmap Goal T-fls T-spec

  rust-lang/goals#651 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Stabilize Cargo SBOM precursor

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  rust-lang/goals#649 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Redesigning `super let`: Flexible Temporary Lifetime Extension

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  rust-lang/goals#648 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Prepare TAIT + RTN for stabilization

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  rust-lang/goals#646 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Open Enums

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  rust-lang/goals#645 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Normative Documentation for Sound `unsafe` Rust

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  rust-lang/goals#644 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Nightly support for function overloading in FFI bindings

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  C-tracking-issue R-every-2-weeks T-compiler T-lang T-libs T-types

  rust-lang/goals#643 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Interactive cargo-tree: TUI for Cargo's dependency graph visualization

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  rust-lang/goals#642 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Incremental Systems Rethought

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  rust-lang/goals#641 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Improving Unsafe Code Documentation in the Rust Standard Library

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  rust-lang/goals#640 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Improve `rustc_codegen_cranelift` performance

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  rust-lang/goals#639 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Implement and Maintain MC/DC Coverage Support

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  C-tracking-issue Roadmap Goal T-compiler T-infra

  rust-lang/goals#638 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Implement Verifiable Mirroring Prototype

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  rust-lang/goals#637 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Implement Supertrait `auto impl`

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  rust-lang/goals#636 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Immobile types and guaranteed destructors

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  rust-lang/goals#635 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Explicit tail calls & `loop_match`

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  rust-lang/goals#634 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Evolving the standard library API across editions

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  rust-lang/goals#633 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Establish a User Research Team

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  rust-lang/goals#632 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Establish a Spot for Safety-Critical Lints in Clippy

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  rust-lang/goals#631 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Dictionary Passing Style Experiment

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  rust-lang/goals#630 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Declarative (`macro_rules!`) macro improvements

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  rust-lang/goals#629 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Control over Drop semantics

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  rust-lang/goals#628 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Cargo cross workspace cache

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  rust-lang/goals#626 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• Native async fn dynamic dispatch in traits

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  rust-lang/goals#625 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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• BorrowSanitizer

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  rust-lang/goals#624 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2026

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