Rust: Project goals for 2025H2

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On Sep 9, we merged RFC 3849, declaring our goals for the "second half" of 2025H2 -- well, the last 3 months, at least, since "yours truly" ran a bit behind getting the goals program organized.

Flagship themes

In prior goals programs, we had a few major flagship goals, but since many of these goals were multi-year programs, it was hard to see what progress had been made. This time we decided to organize things a bit differently. We established four flagship themes, each of which covers a number of more specific goals. These themes cover the goals we expect to be the most impactful and constitute our major focus as a Project for the remainder of the year. The four themes identified in the RFC are as follows:

• Beyond the &, making it possible to create user-defined smart pointers that are as ergonomic as Rust's built-in references &.
• Unblocking dormant traits, extending the core capabilities of Rust's trait system to unblock long-desired features for language interop, lending iteration, and more.
• Flexible, fast(er) compilation, making it faster to build Rust programs and improving support for specialized build scenarios like embedded usage and sanitizers.
• Higher-level Rust, making higher-level usage patterns in Rust easier.

"Beyond the &"

Goal	Point of contact	Team(s) and Champion(s)
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