October 2025 - Rust Project Goals

The Rust project is currently working towards a slate of 3 project goals, with 1 of them designated as Flagship 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.

Flagship goals

Progress
Point of contact	Ed Page
Champions	cargo (Ed Page), lang (Josh Triplett), lang-docs (Josh Triplett)
Task owners	Ed Page

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.

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.