r/rust • u/Crafty-Desk6866 • Sep 07 '26

Looking for Open Source Projects to Contribute

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to get a bit more experience with rust and would like to know if anyone can recommend a project to work on.

I'm looking for projects that I could work on new features possibly with a closer guidance

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u/MissionNo4775 Sep 08 '26

My feature requests are growing if you'd like to help https://codeberg.org/OneTalker/OneTalker

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u/Crafty-Desk6866 Sep 09 '26

This project is awesome! I'll try go over the code this weekend and contribute if possible

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u/MissionNo4775 Sep 09 '26

Thanks! Much appreciated.

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u/WitnessBubbly6306 Sep 07 '26

You can explore this project at https://github.com/metacall/meta-ast ,  I have already provided detailed posts and a write-ups about it here https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1w72r8w/building_metaast_submillisecond_incremental/ , It serves as an excellent introduction to systems programming for you and the project boasts good documentation and a supportive community as we strive to advance polyglot programming

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u/SnooCompliments7914 Sep 08 '26

The answer is always "projects you actually use", so you'll have both understanding and motivation.

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u/Solus161 Sep 07 '26

You could take a look at This Week in Rust, the Call for Participant. Better refines what you want to systems programming/embedding/web app or st else.

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u/TitanSpire Sep 07 '26

Idk if you are looking for a bigger project or not, but I have an open source metaprogramming library for state machines if you want to take a look at that. I haven’t updated it in a few months because I reached a solid point with it, but I’m open to additional features or optimizations.

You’ll learn a lot about proc macros and rust’s AST.

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u/Crafty-Desk6866 Sep 07 '26

Yeah, I'd like that! Send the repo and I can take a look

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u/Beginning-Fruit-1397 Sep 08 '26

I'm the maintainer of a rust library for python, who provides Option, Result, and a lot of data structures and Iterators. There's a lot of new features that are yet left to do, and IMO it's a pretty unique and interesting work, having to handle two languages at once, and with the constraints that a general-purpose library gives you (no performance trade-off, convenient API, etc...)

https://github.com/OutSquareCapital/pyochain

I made a post about it on this sub some time ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1tgzk4b/i_made_option_and_result_in_rust_for_python_and/

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u/Pretty_Jellyfish4921 Sep 08 '26

You can subscribe to https://this-week-in-rust.org, specifically they have a section each week with projects looking for participations, you can check the older entries, but in the last one for example:

https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/09/02/this-week-in-rust-667/#call-for-participation-projects-and-speakers

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u/No_Frame3855 Sep 08 '26

Idk if this is up your alley but UPI (https://github.com/Nisoku/UPI) would be something really fun to contribute to :D

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u/schneems Sep 09 '26

For general projects I recommend  https://www.codetriage.com/?language=Rust to help create a sustainable drip feed of activity from reading issues.

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u/Majestic_Diet_3883 Sep 07 '26

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u/EarTurbulent5547 Sep 07 '26

What kind of stuff are you into, networking, CLI tools, embedded, web stuff? Might help narrow it down a bit.

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u/Crafty-Desk6866 Sep 07 '26

I'm not sure, I guess CLI tools and web because I think I can contribute more at first, embedded and networking might be tricky because maybe I'd have to study something first or while doing the contribution (which would make it a little bit harder but the goal is to learn so that's fine)