Rust Project Goals

The Rust project is currently working towards a slate of 3 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

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

Progress
Point of contact	Weihang Lo
Champions	cargo (Weihang Lo)
Task owners	Weihang Lo, Weihang Lo

No detailed updates available.

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

Progress
Point of 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/rust-project-goals#401)

Progress
Point of contact	Ross Sullivan
Champions	cargo (Weihang Lo)
Task owners	Ross Sullivan

1 detailed update available.

Comment by [Nurzhan Saken][] posted on 2026-05-07:

The 2025h2 goal period is now over, so I'm closing this issue. Thanks to everyone who contributed! The Cargo cross workspace cache goal will build on this work in the 2026 period. Authors are welcome to leave a final comment about the goal's outcome.