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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
No beginner labels indexed

How to contribute to rust-lang/rust

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
  4. Pick one of the 128 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.

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