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The Rust project is currently working towards a slate of 41 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 rust-project-goals repository.

Roadmap goals

Goals looking for help


Other goal updates

Add a team charter for rustdoc team (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#387)
Progress Completed
Point of contact

Guillaume Gomez
Champions

rustdoc (Guillaume Gomez)
No detailed updates available.
Borrow checking in a-mir-formality (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#122)
Progress
Point of contact

Niko Matsakis
Champions

types (Niko Matsakis)
Task owners

Niko Matsakis, tiif
No detailed updates available.
Progress
Point of contact

David Wood
Champions

cargo (Eric Huss), compiler (David Wood), libs (Amanieu d'Antras)
Task owners

Adam Gemmell, David Wood
No detailed updates available.
C++/Rust Interop Problem Space Mapping (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#388)
Progress
Point of contact

Joel Marcey
Champions

compiler (Oliver Scherer), lang (Tyler Mandry), libs (David Tolnay)
Task owners

Joel Marcey
No detailed updates available.
Comprehensive niche checks for Rust (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#262)
Progress
Point of contact

Bastian Kersting
Champions

compiler (Ben Kimock), opsem (Ben Kimock)
Task owners

Bastian Kersting], Jakob Koschel
No detailed updates available.
Progress
Point of contact

Boxy
Champions

lang (Niko Matsakis)
Task owners

Boxy, Noah Lev

1 detailed update available.
Comment by [Niko Matsakis][] posted on 2026-02-13:

Latest updates:

Boxy and I have met (and continue to meet) and work on modeling const generics in a-mir-formality. We're still working on laying the groundwork.

There is a proposed project goal for next year: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2026/const-generics.html

Continue Experimentation with Pin Ergonomics (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#389)
Progress
Point of contact

Frank King
Champions

compiler (Oliver Scherer), lang (TC)
Task owners

Frank King
No detailed updates available.
Continue resolving `cargo-semver-checks` blockers for merging into cargo (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#104)
Progress
Point of contact

Predrag Gruevski
Champions

cargo (Ed Page), rustdoc (Alona Enraght-Moony)
Task owners

Predrag Gruevski
No detailed updates available.
Design a language feature to solve Field Projections (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#390)
Progress
Point of contact

Benno Lossin
Champions

lang (Tyler Mandry)
Task owners

Benno Lossin
No detailed updates available.
Develop the capabilities to keep the FLS up to date (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#391)
Progress
Point of 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/rust-project-goals#392)
Progress
Point of contact

Ian McCormack
Champions

compiler (Ralf Jung), opsem (Ralf Jung)
Task owners

Ian McCormack
No detailed updates available.
Ergonomic ref-counting: RFC decision and preview (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#107)
Progress
Point of contact

Niko Matsakis
Champions

compiler (Santiago Pastorino), lang (Niko Matsakis)
Task owners

Niko Matsakis, Santiago Pastorino
No detailed updates available.
Evolving trait hierarchies (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#393)
Progress
Point of contact

Taylor Cramer
Champions

lang (Taylor Cramer), types (Oliver 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/rust-project-goals#394)
Progress
Point of 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 libtest json output experiment (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#255)
Progress
Point of contact

Ed Page
Champions

cargo (Ed Page)
Task owners

Ed Page
No detailed updates available.
Finish the std::offload module (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#109)
Progress
Point of 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: compiler features (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#407)
Progress
Point of contact

Tomas Sedovic
Champions

compiler (Wesley Wiser)
Task owners

(depending on the flag)
No detailed updates available.
Getting Rust for Linux into stable Rust: language features (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#116)
Progress
Point of contact

Tomas Sedovic
Champions

lang (Josh Triplett), lang-docs (TC)
Task owners

Ding Xiang Fei
No detailed updates available.
Implement Open API Namespace Support (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#256)
Progress
Point of contact

Help Wanted
Champions

cargo (Ed Page), compiler (b-naber), crates-io (Carol Nichols)
Task owners

b-naber, Ed Page
No detailed updates available.
In-place initialization (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#395)
Progress
Point of contact

Alice Ryhl
Champions

lang (Taylor Cramer)
Task owners

Benno Lossin, Alice Ryhl, Michael Goulet, Taylor Cramer, Josh Triplett, Gary Guo, Yoshua Wuyts
No detailed updates available.
MIR move elimination (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#396)
Progress
Point of contact

Amanieu d'Antras
Champions

lang (Amanieu d'Antras)
Task owners

Amanieu d'Antras
No detailed updates available.
Next-generation trait solver (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#113)
Progress
Point of contact

lcnr
Champions

types (lcnr)
Task owners

Boxy, Michael Goulet, lcnr
No detailed updates available.
Production-ready cranelift backend (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#397)
Progress Will not complete
Point of contact

Folkert de Vries
Champions

compiler (bjorn3)
Task owners

bjorn3, Folkert de Vries, [Trifecta Tech Foundation]
No detailed updates available.
Promoting Parallel Front End (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#121)
Progress
Point of contact

Sparrow Li
Task owners

Sparrow Li
No detailed updates available.
Prototype a new set of Cargo "plumbing" commands (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#264)
Progress
Point of contact

Help Wanted
Champions

cargo (Ed Page)
Task owners

Help wanted, Ed Page
No detailed updates available.
Prototype Cargo build analysis (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#398)
Progress
Point of contact

Weihang Lo
Champions

cargo (Weihang Lo)
Task owners

Help wanted Weihang Lo, Weihang Lo
No detailed updates available.
Progress
Point of contact

Aapo Alasuutari
Champions

compiler (Oliver Scherer), lang (Tyler Mandry)
Task owners

Aapo Alasuutari
No detailed updates available.
reflection and comptime (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#406)
Progress
Point of contact

Oliver Scherer
Champions

compiler (Oliver Scherer), lang (Scott McMurray), libs (Josh Triplett)
Task owners

oli-obk

1 detailed update available.
Comment by [Oliver Scherer][] posted on 2026-02-09:
  • @BD103 added slices, arrays and raw pointer support
    • https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/151019
    • https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/151031
    • https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/151118
    • https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/151119
  • Asuna added all of our primitives
    • https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/151123
  • Jamie Hill-Daniel gave us references
    • https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/151222
  • @izagawd made it possible to extract some info from dyn Trait
    • https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/151239

There is ongoing work for Adts and function pointers, both of which will land as MVPs and will need some work to make them respect semver or generally become useful in practice

Removing the 'static bound from try_as_dyn turned out to have many warts, so I'm limiting it to a much smaller subset and will have borrowck emit the 'static requirement if the other rules do not apply (instead of having an unconditional 'static requirement)

Relink don't Rebuild (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#400)
Progress Will not complete
Point of contact

Jane Lusby
Champions

cargo (Weihang Lo), compiler (Oliver Scherer)
Task owners

@dropbear32, @osiewicz
No detailed updates available.
Rework Cargo Build Dir Layout (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#401)
Progress
Point of 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/rust-project-goals#402)
Progress Completed
Point of contact

Guillaume Gomez
Champions

compiler (Wesley Wiser), infra (Marco Ieni)
Task owners

Guillaume Gomez
No detailed updates available.
Rust Stabilization of MemorySanitizer and ThreadSanitizer Support (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#403)
Progress
Point of contact

Jakob Koschel
Task owners

[Bastian Kersting](https://github.com/1c3t3a), [Jakob Koschel](https://github.com/jakos-sec)
No detailed updates available.
Rust Vision Document (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#269)
Progress
Point of contact

Niko Matsakis
Task owners

vision team
No detailed updates available.
rustc-perf improvements (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#275)
Progress
Point of contact

James
Champions

compiler (David Wood), infra (Jakub Beránek)
Task owners

James, Jakub Beránek, David Wood
No detailed updates available.
Stabilizable Polonius support on nightly (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#118)
Progress
Point of contact

Rémy Rakic
Champions

types (Jack Huey)
Task owners

Amanda Stjerna, Rémy Rakic, Niko Matsakis
No detailed updates available.
Stabilize cargo-script (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#119)
Progress
Point of contact

Ed Page
Champions

cargo (Ed Page), lang (Josh Triplett), lang-docs (Josh Triplett)
Task owners

Ed Page

1 detailed update available.
Comment by [Ed Page][] posted on 2026-02-13:

Key developments

  • FCP has ended on frontmatter support, just awaiting merge (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/148051)
  • Cargo script has entered FCP (https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/16569)

Blockers

  • Potential issues around edition, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/152254
Stabilize public/private dependencies (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#272)
Progress
Point of contact

Help Wanted
Champions

cargo (Ed Page)
Task owners

Help wanted, Ed Page
No detailed updates available.
Stabilize rustdoc `doc_cfg` feature (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#404)
Progress
Point of contact

Guillaume Gomez
Champions

rustdoc (Guillaume Gomez)
Task owners

Guillaume Gomez
No detailed updates available.
SVE and SME on AArch64 (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#270)
Progress
Point of contact

David Wood
Champions

compiler (David Wood), lang (Niko Matsakis), libs (Amanieu d'Antras)
Task owners

David Wood
No detailed updates available.
Type System Documentation (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#405)
Progress
Point of contact

Boxy
Champions

types (Boxy)
Task owners

Boxy, lcnr
No detailed updates available.
Progress
Point of contact

Jack Wrenn
Champions

compiler (Jack Wrenn), lang (Scott McMurray)
Task owners

Jacob Pratt, Jack Wrenn, Luca Versari
No detailed updates available.