August Blog Post - Rust Project Goals

The Rust project is currently working towards a slate of 16 project goals, with 0 of them designated as Roadmap Goals. This post provides selected updates on our progress towards these goals (or, in some cases, lack thereof). The full details for any particular goal are available in its associated tracking issue on the goals repository.

Roadmap goals

Goals looking for help

Other goal updates

Add a team charter for rustdoc team (rust-lang/goals#387)

Progress
Contact	Guillaume Gomez
Champions	rustdoc (Guillaume Gomez)

No detailed updates available.

Comprehensive niche checks for Rust (rust-lang/goals#262)

Progress
Contact	Bastian Kersting
Champions	compiler (Ben Kimock), opsem (Ben Kimock)
Task owners	Bastian Kersting], Jakob Koschel

No detailed updates available.

Develop the capabilities to keep the FLS up to date (rust-lang/goals#391)

Progress
Contact	Pete LeVasseur
Champions	bootstrap (Jakub Beránek), lang (Niko Matsakis), spec (Pete LeVasseur)
Task owners	Pete LeVasseur, Contributors from Ferrous Systems and others TBD, `t-spec` and contributors from Ferrous Systems

No detailed updates available.

Emit Retags in Codegen (rust-lang/goals#392)

Progress
Contact	Ian McCormack
Champions	compiler (Ralf Jung), opsem (Ralf Jung)
Task owners	Ian McCormack

No detailed updates available.

Evolving trait hierarchies (rust-lang/goals#393)

Progress
Contact	Taylor Cramer
Champions	lang (Taylor Cramer), types (Oli Scherer)
Task owners	Taylor Cramer, Taylor Cramer & others

No detailed updates available.

Expand the Rust Reference to specify more aspects of the Rust language (rust-lang/goals#394)

Progress
Contact	Josh Triplett
Champions	lang-docs (Josh Triplett), spec (Josh Triplett)
Task owners	Amanieu d'Antras, Guillaume Gomez, Jack Huey, Josh Triplett, lcnr, Mara Bos, Vadim Petrochenkov, Jane Lusby

No detailed updates available.

Finish the std::offload module (rust-lang/goals#109)

Progress
Contact	Manuel Drehwald
Champions	compiler (Manuel Drehwald), lang (TC)
Task owners	Manuel Drehwald, LLVM offload/GPU contributors

No detailed updates available.

Getting Rust for Linux into stable Rust: language features (rust-lang/goals#116)

Progress
Contact	Tomas Sedovic
Champions	lang (Josh Triplett), lang-docs (TC)
Task owners	Ding Xiang Fei

No detailed updates available.

Production-ready cranelift backend (rust-lang/goals#397)

Progress
Contact	Folkert de Vries
Champions	compiler (bjorn3)
Task owners	bjorn3, Folkert de Vries, [Trifecta Tech Foundation]

No detailed updates available.

Prototype Cargo build analysis (rust-lang/goals#398)

Progress
Contact	Weihang Lo
Champions	cargo (Weihang Lo)
Task owners	Weihang Lo, Weihang Lo

No detailed updates available.

Relink don't Rebuild (rust-lang/goals#400)

Progress
Contact	Jane Lusby
Champions	cargo (Weihang Lo), compiler (Oli Scherer)
Task owners	@dropbear32, @osiewicz

No detailed updates available.

Rework Cargo Build Dir Layout (rust-lang/goals#401)

Progress
Contact	Ross Sullivan
Champions	cargo (Weihang Lo)
Task owners	Ross Sullivan

No detailed updates available.

Run more tests for GCC backend in the Rust's CI (rust-lang/goals#402)

Progress
Contact	Guillaume Gomez
Champions	compiler (Wesley Wiser), infra (Marco Ieni)
Task owners	Guillaume Gomez

No detailed updates available.

Rust Vision Document (rust-lang/goals#269)

Progress
Contact	Niko Matsakis
Task owners	vision team

No detailed updates available.

rustc-perf improvements (rust-lang/goals#275)

Progress
Contact	James
Champions	compiler (David Wood), infra (Jakub Beránek)
Task owners	James, Jakub Beránek, David Wood

No detailed updates available.

Stabilize rustdoc `doc_cfg` feature (rust-lang/goals#404)

Progress
Contact	Guillaume Gomez
Champions	rustdoc (Guillaume Gomez)
Task owners	Guillaume Gomez

No detailed updates available.