rust-lang/rust
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Is rust-lang/rust beginner-friendly?
In the last 30 days, rust-lang/rust merged 261 of 524 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 128 beginner-friendly issues are open now.
- Stars
- 121k
- Forks
- 17.3k
- Open beginner issues
- 128
- Indexed issues
- 11.9k
- Avg merge
- 2d 21h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 531
- Dominant language
- Rust
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last GitHub push
- Nov 5, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 21, 2026
- Contributing guide
- Contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- Code of conduct
- Beginner labels
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How to contribute to rust-lang/rust
- Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
- Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
- Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
- Pick one of the 128 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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A-incr-comp A-pin C-bug I-ICE T-compiler
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
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C-bug F-reborrow I-ICE T-compiler
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100
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C-bug F-reborrow I-ICE T-compiler
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
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`let_underscore_lock` suggestion crosses macro boundariesMay be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. OpenA-diagnostics D-invalid-suggestion T-compiler
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
rust-lang/rust#165650 · 1 reaction ·
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B-MCP-approved C-tracking-issue S-tracking-unimplemented T-compiler
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
rust-lang/rust#165648 · 1 reaction ·
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A-const-eval A-crate-compat A-monomorphization C-bug T-compiler T-types
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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A-diagnostics A-lints L-unused_parens T-compiler
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
rust-lang/rust#165636 · 1 reaction ·
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A-run-make relnotes relnotes-needs-review relnotes-tracking-issue T-lang T-libs
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100
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A-decl-macros-1-2 A-macros A-parser C-bug T-compiler T-lang
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 56/100
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C-bug F-reborrow I-ICE needs-triage T-compiler
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
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A-LLVM C-bug F-optimize_attribute I-slow needs-triage
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
rust-lang/rust#165601 · 2 comments ·
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-Zbuild-std C-bug O-trusty T-libs
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 43/100
rust-lang/rust#165596 · 5 comments ·
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C-bug F-move_expr I-ICE needs-triage T-compiler
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A-linkage A-testsuite A-thread-locals C-bug O-musl T-libs
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
rust-lang/rust#165581 · 4 comments ·
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-Zbuild-std C-bug O-teeos T-libs
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
rust-lang/rust#165560 · 3 comments ·
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A-linkage A-linkers C-tracking-issue O-windows-gnullvm T-compiler
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
rust-lang/rust#165558 · 1 reaction ·
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A-linkage A-linkers C-tracking-issue O-windows-gnu T-compiler
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 43/100
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A-linkage A-linkers C-tracking-issue O-linux-gnu T-compiler
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
rust-lang/rust#165555 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·
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A-LLVM A-LTO C-bug I-llvm-error I-prioritize O-x86_64 regression-from-stable-to-stable T-compiler
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C-tracking-issue S-tracking-unimplemented T-libs
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
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A-LLVM C-bug I-miscompile P-high regression-from-stable-to-stable
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
rust-lang/rust#165544 · 2 comments ·
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relnotes relnotes-needs-review relnotes-tracking-issue T-compiler
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 42/100
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A-cranelift C-bug I-ICE needs-triage requires-nightly T-compiler
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 46/100
rust-lang/rust#165532 · 1 comment ·
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A-LLVM I-miscompile I-prioritize regression-from-stable-to-stable T-compiler
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
rust-lang/rust#165528 · 1 comment ·
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relnotes relnotes-needs-review relnotes-tracking-issue T-compiler T-libs
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 78/100
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A-LLVM O-Arm O-UEFI O-x86_64 relnotes relnotes-needs-review relnotes-tracking-issue T-compiler
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100
rust-lang/rust#165504 · 1 comment ·
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relnotes relnotes-tracking-issue T-libs
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100
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C-tracking-issue T-compiler
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
rust-lang/rust#165476 · 7 comments · 1 reaction ·
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A-coherence A-crate-compat A-slice-vec C-bug I-prioritize regression-from-stable-to-stable S-has-bisection T-lang T-libs T-types
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100
rust-lang/rust#165474 · 29 comments ·
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C-bug F-autodiff I-ICE needs-triage T-compiler
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 54/100
rust-lang/rust#165470 · 2 comments ·
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-Zcrate-attr C-bug T-compiler
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 53/100
rust-lang/rust#165450 · 1 comment ·
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A-incr-comp C-bug I-ICE needs-triage T-compiler
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100
rust-lang/rust#165435 · 3 comments ·
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Tracking issue for release notes of #164258: clarify when `Vec::into_boxed_slice()` is in-placeOpenrelnotes relnotes-needs-review relnotes-tracking-issue T-libs
Difficulty 2/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100
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A-debuginfo C-tracking-issue S-tracking-unimplemented T-compiler
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100
rust-lang/rust#165422 · 1 comment ·
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relnotes relnotes-needs-review relnotes-tracking-issue T-libs
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100
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A-diagnostics T-compiler T-types WG-trait-system-refactor
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rust-lang/rust#165413 · 1 comment ·
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A-compiler-builtins A-linkage A-linkers A-MIR A-uninhabited-types T-compiler T-opsem
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100
rust-lang/rust#165399 · 24 comments ·
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A-cross A-linkage C-bug O-Arm requires-custom-config T-bootstrap
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100
rust-lang/rust#165385 · 1 comment ·
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O-SGX relnotes relnotes-needs-review relnotes-tracking-issue T-libs
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A-LLVM A-reproducibility llvm-fixed-upstream
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100
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A-Unicode relnotes relnotes-tracking-issue T-libs
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 15/100
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A-LLVM A-target-feature I-miscompile I-prioritize O-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc regression-from-stable-to-stable T-compiler
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100
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-Zbuild-std A-ABI A-floating-point C-bug I-miscompile O-MIPS T-compiler
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 22/100
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A-docs A-networking A-time C-bug T-libs
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
rust-lang/rust#165341 · 10 comments ·
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Inline asm: missing `vzeroupper` insertion for value-less `out("ymmN") _` / `out("zmmN") _` clobbersOpenA-inline-assembly A-LLVM C-bug T-compiler WG-llvm
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100
rust-lang/rust#165332 · 1 comment ·
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A-mir-opt A-mir-opt-GVN I-miscompile I-unsound P-medium T-compiler
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100
rust-lang/rust#165327 · 1 comment ·
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A-LLVM C-bug I-miscompile S-found-by-fuzzing T-compiler WG-llvm
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100
rust-lang/rust#165325 · 2 comments ·
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A-monomorphization C-bug E-needs-bisection I-cycle S-has-mcve T-types
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100
rust-lang/rust#165319 · 11 comments ·
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A-floating-point A-patterns C-bug I-miscompile P-medium regression-from-stable-to-stable S-found-by-fuzzing
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100
rust-lang/rust#165311 · 4 comments ·
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A-const-eval A-intrinsics A-mir-opt C-bug I-miscompile I-prioritize I-unsound S-found-by-fuzzing S-has-bisection T-compiler T-types
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 6/100
rust-lang/rust#165309 · 6 comments ·
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