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Write idiomatic Rust that scales.

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Dominant language: Rust
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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M-DEBUG-SYMBOLS, internal services should always enable debug symbols Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#63 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
M-TARGET-FEATURES ... must not prevent a crate from compiling Open

easy-pr request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#60 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
M-ERRORS-CANONICAL-STRUCTS - Don't add `is_foo()` and similar if no one would act on these. Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#56 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Remove "*.png" Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#52 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 5, 2026
For M-UNSAFE also recommend `cargo-careful` Open

easy-pr request

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#51 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Clarify what guidelines apply to Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#50 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Add Changelog to Guidelines Open

issue request

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#49 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Explain in M-STATIC-VERIFICATION general motivation for custom lints we picked & expand Open

easy-pr issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#48 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Also mentioned testing issues in M-AVOID-STATICS Open

easy-pr issue

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#47 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Link in M-TYPES-SEND explanation how autotraits and `Send` work Open

easy-pr issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#46 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Clarify M-DI-HIERARCHY what dyn traits are Open

easy-pr issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#45 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Consider breaking up M-LOG-STRUCTURED into separate guidelines, possibly in Telemetry chapter. Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#44 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
M-PANIC-IS-STOP should clarify that it does not suggest that people should "abort" on panic Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#37 · Opened Jan 7, 2026
guidelines.txt exceeds maximum allowed tokens with Claude Code Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#33 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 27, 2025
Guideline on panic restriction and change default lint settings Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#32 · Opened Nov 19, 2025
No Date in the all.txt Open

easy-pr issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#31 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 18, 2025
M-MOCKABLE-SYSCALLS (or similar) should include (for users) easy way to simulate "good" and "bad" API behaviors / data Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#28 · Opened Nov 5, 2025
M-IMPL-ASREF: clarify additional constraints on where to apply this rule Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#24 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Clarify M-MOCKABLE-SYSCALLS that enum variant payload methods should not be pub (or wrap entire pattern in struct). Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#23 · Opened Oct 14, 2025
Clarify M-SMALLER-CRATES is mostly orthogonal to whether users should see the smaller crates. Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#22 · Opened Sep 29, 2025
Guideline Idea Tracker Open

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microsoft/rust-guidelines#16 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 23, 2025
Adversarial trait issues Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#12 · Opened Aug 14, 2025
M-DOC-INLINE is too broad Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#5 · Opened Aug 6, 2025
M-NO-GLOB-REEXPORTS is excessively broad Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/rust-guidelines#4 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2025

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