rust-lang/rust-bindgen

Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.

Is rust-lang/rust-bindgen beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, rust-lang/rust-bindgen merged 11 of 25 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 4 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars
5.3k
Forks
846
Open beginner issues
4
Indexed issues
555
Avg merge
2d 6h
Merged PRs (30d)
11
Dominant language
Rust
License
BSD-3-Clause
Last GitHub push
Oct 27, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide
Contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
help wanted

How to contribute to rust-lang/rust-bindgen

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's BSD-3-Clause license.
  3. Pick one of the 4 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.

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