Rust: Project goals update — July 2025

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The Rust Project is currently working towards a slate of 40 project goals, with 3 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.

This is the final update for the first half of 2025. We're in the process of selecting goals for the second half of the year.

Here are the goals that are currently proposed for 2025H2.

Flagship goals

Bring the Async Rust experience closer to parity with sync Rust

Why this goal? This work continues our drive to improve support for async programming in Rust. In 2024H2 we stabilized async closures; explored the generator design space; and began work on the dynosaur crate, an experimental proc-macro to provide dynamic dispatch for async functions in traits. In 2025H1 our plan is to deliver (1) improved support for async-fn-in-traits, completely subsuming the functionality of the async-trait...

Get the full details here: Project goals update — July 2025 | Rust Blog