October 2025 - Rust Project Goals

The Rust project is currently working towards a slate of 17 project goals, with 7 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

"Beyond the `&`"

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.

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.

Reborrow traits (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#399)

Progress
Point of contact	Aapo Alasuutari
Champions	compiler (Oliver Scherer), lang (Tyler Mandry)
Task owners	Aapo Alasuutari

No detailed updates available.

"Higher-level Rust"

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.

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

No detailed updates available.

"Unblocking dormant traits"

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.

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.

Goals looking for help

Other goal updates

C++/Rust Interop Problem Space Mapping (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#388)

Progress
Point of contact	Jon Bauman
Champions	compiler (Oliver Scherer), lang (Tyler Mandry), libs (David Tolnay)
Task owners	Jon Bauman

No detailed updates available.

Const Generics (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#100)

Progress
Point of contact	Boxy
Champions	lang (Niko Matsakis)
Task owners	Boxy, Noah Lev

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.

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: 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.

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.

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

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.

Unsafe Fields (rust-lang/rust-project-goals#273)

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.