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The Rust Foundation

A language empowering everyone

The Rust Project is a group of developers and maintainers who build and support the Rust programming language. Organised into teams, they develop new features and mantain the Rust language, its compiler and standard library, and also all kinds of infrastructure that supports Rust. This application is being made by the Rust Foundation, the legal entity for the Rust Programming language, working in close association with representatives from the Rust Project.

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Project ideas

3 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 3 that state a difficulty: 1 medium, 2 hard. Sizes: 1 small, 1 medium, 1 large. 3 mentors named.

Improve Rust User Experience on Windows small hard
Modernize the libc crate medium medium
Make cargo-semver-checks support type-checking lints large hard

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2024, 3 years. Projects per year: '24: 9, '25: 18, '26: 13.

On GitHub

95 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Rust (61), Python (4), HTML (3), Shell (3), Dockerfile (2), JavaScript (2).

Links and channels

Website: https://www.rust-lang.org
Ideas page: https://github.com/rust-lang/google-summer-of-code
Contributor guide: https://github.com/rust-lang/google-summer-of-code/blob/main/gsoc/proposal-guide.md
Source code: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust
Mailing list: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/421156-gsoc

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "The Rust Foundation" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "The Rust Foundation"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "The Rust Foundation"

or ask your assistant:
"Which The Rust Foundation repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.