What will happen to the Rust project in 2024?

Every six months, the Rust project plans to update its task list, and a 26-item action plan has already been created for the 2nd half of 2024.

Among the key goals on this list are to remove the main obstacles for the Linux kernel on Rust, to make the 4th release of the project, and to slightly change the experience of asynchronous Rust.

A new version of Rust is planned for release by the end of this year. The main changes in the new release will concern modifications for the backup variant of type !, as well as support for async fn and impl Trait in traits, and the ability to add (async) generators using the gen keyword. According to the plan in the current year, the development of functions will be completed, and the already stable version 1.85 will be available at the beginning of 2025.

Asynchronous closures are also scheduled to be developed, unstable functions will be handled, and a few other tasks are already planned.

Here are a few more goals for further development of the project:

• Plan to speed up compilation by almost 20 percent.
• Stabilization of cargo-script so that it will be possible to embed dependencies for single file scripts.
• To speed up testing time, “merged doctests” will be implemented.
• Reference counting will be added to reduce data-handling efforts.
• Improvement of Polonius support.

If you want to see the entire list of goals for the next six months, you can go to the ...project-goals repository. The next phase of planning will be launched in early October.