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Finish chapter on type checking A-HIR Area: high-level intermediate representation (HIR) A-MIR Area: mid-level intermediate representation (MIR) A-THIR Area: typed high-level intermediate representation (THIR) A-type-check Area: type checking C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-hard Difficulty: might require advanced knowledge T-compiler Relevant to compiler team T-types Relevant to types team
#1161 opened Jul 1, 2021 by rylev
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One sentence per line? A-meta Area: meta, about rustc or rustc-dev-guide itself A-style Area: style C-CI Category: CI for this repo C-discussion Category: discussion WG-rustc-dev-guide Working group: rustc-dev-guide
#1132 opened May 26, 2021 by RalfJung
14 ❤️ 3
Make contributing.md into a series of tutorials A-contribution-workflows Area: contribution workflows A-meta Area: meta, about rustc or rustc-dev-guide itself A-organization Area: how things are organized, incl. this guide C-enhancement Category: enhancement T-compiler Relevant to compiler team
#775 opened Jun 28, 2020 by mark-i-m
7 ❤️ 2
Notes about MIR generation for match expressions A-match Area: `match` expressions A-MIR Area: mid-level intermediate representation (MIR) C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-hard Difficulty: might require advanced knowledge T-compiler Relevant to compiler team
#943 opened Nov 7, 2020 by mark-i-m
1 ❤️ 2
Add section about self-profiling and measureme A-performance Area: performance E-medium Difficulty: might require some prior knowledge or code reading E-needs-info Call for participation: this issue needs more info to act on E-needs-investigation Call for participation: this issue needs further investigation T-compiler Relevant to compiler team WG-compiler-performance Working group: Compiler Performance
#1174 opened Jul 22, 2021 by michaelwoerister
1 ❤️ 2
Document new mir-opt test format. A-mir-opt Area: MIR optimizations A-test-suite Area: rust-lang/rust test suites C-cleanup Category: cleanups E-easy Difficulty: might be a good place for a beginner E-mentor Call for partcipation: this issue has mentoring instructions / mentors available T-compiler Relevant to compiler team
#701 opened May 11, 2020 by vext01
8 ❤️ 1
Collect backlinks to rustc-dev-guide reading club sessions C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-easy Difficulty: might be a good place for a beginner WG-rustc-dev-guide Working group: rustc-dev-guide X-reading-club Effort: dev-guide reading club
#2126 opened Nov 4, 2024 by jieyouxu
1 ❤️ 1
Difficult to find 'How to structure your PR' A-contribution-workflows Area: contribution workflows A-meta Area: meta, about rustc or rustc-dev-guide itself A-social Area: social aspects E-hard Difficulty: might require advanced knowledge T-compiler Relevant to compiler team
#831 opened Aug 19, 2020 by jyn514
2 ❤️ 1
Writing mentored issues A-contribution-workflows Area: contribution workflows A-contributor-onboarding Area: contributor on-boarding advice (e.g. for new contributors) A-social Area: social aspects E-help-wanted Call for participation: extra help is wanted E-needs-writeup Call for participation: discussion can be written up without much research required T-compiler Relevant to compiler team
#64 opened Feb 23, 2018 by davidtwco
@jieyouxu
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Parallel rustc C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-hard Difficulty: might require advanced knowledge E-help-wanted Call for participation: extra help is wanted T-compiler Relevant to compiler team WG-parallel-rustc Working group: parallel rustc
#81 opened Mar 9, 2018 by nikomatsakis
2
advice for debugging incremental compilation hashing failures etc A-devex Area: contributor developer experience A-incr-comp Area: incremental compilation C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-hard Difficulty: might require advanced knowledge E-help-wanted Call for participation: extra help is wanted T-compiler Relevant to compiler team WG-incr-comp Working group: incremental compilation
#87 opened Mar 13, 2018 by nikomatsakis
5
document where various bits of rust are desugared A-desugaring Area: how constructs are desugared over various IR lowerings A-HIR Area: high-level intermediate representation (HIR) A-MIR Area: mid-level intermediate representation (MIR) A-THIR Area: typed high-level intermediate representation (THIR) C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-hard Difficulty: might require advanced knowledge T-compiler Relevant to compiler team
#94 opened Mar 19, 2018 by nikomatsakis
4 tasks
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More information on attributes A-AST Area: abstract syntax tree A-attributes Area: attributes A-HIR Area: high-level intermediate representation (HIR) C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-hard Difficulty: might require advanced knowledge T-compiler Relevant to compiler team
#104 opened Mar 27, 2018 by phansch
@jdonszelmann
10
Guide mentions trait evaluation (as part of selection), but does not explain it A-trait-system Area: trait system C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-hard Difficulty: might require advanced knowledge T-compiler Relevant to compiler team T-types Relevant to types team
#174 opened Jul 30, 2018 by orium
4
Document HIR ty lowering A-HIR Area: high-level intermediate representation (HIR) C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-hard Difficulty: might require advanced knowledge E-help-wanted Call for participation: extra help is wanted T-compiler Relevant to compiler team T-types Relevant to types team
#178 opened Aug 8, 2018 by nikomatsakis
4 tasks
@fmease
10
Explain all the stable hashing shenanigans A-incr-comp Area: incremental compilation C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-help-wanted Call for participation: extra help is wanted E-medium Difficulty: might require some prior knowledge or code reading E-needs-writeup Call for participation: discussion can be written up without much research required T-compiler Relevant to compiler team
#203 opened Sep 20, 2018 by RalfJung
10
Merged msgids in messages.pot caused by improper SUMMARY.md lists
#2341 opened Apr 18, 2025 by hwhsu1231
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Background on impl Trait A-existential-types Area: existential types C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-hard Difficulty: might require advanced knowledge T-compiler Relevant to compiler team T-types Relevant to types team WG-async Working group: async
#339 opened Jun 14, 2019 by mark-i-m
Transcribe the Compiler Lecture Cranelift A-cg-cranelift Area: cranelift codegen backend C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-medium Difficulty: might require some prior knowledge or code reading T-compiler Relevant to compiler team
#358 opened Jun 29, 2019 by spastorino
3
Transcribe the Compiler Lecture Rust analyzer guide C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-easy Difficulty: might be a good place for a beginner E-help-wanted Call for participation: extra help is wanted T-rust-analyzer Relevant to rust-analyzer team
#359 opened Jun 29, 2019 by spastorino
2
Transcribe the Compiler Lecture Rust analyzer syntax trees A-AST Area: abstract syntax tree C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-help-wanted Call for participation: extra help is wanted E-medium Difficulty: might require some prior knowledge or code reading T-rust-analyzer Relevant to rust-analyzer team
#360 opened Jun 29, 2019 by spastorino
2
Transcribe the Compiler Lecture oli-obk on miri and constant evaluation A-const-eval Area: const evaluation A-miri Area: miri E-help-wanted Call for participation: extra help is wanted E-medium Difficulty: might require some prior knowledge or code reading T-compiler Relevant to compiler team WG-const-eval Working group: const-eval
#362 opened Jun 29, 2019 by spastorino
1
Transcribe the Compiler Lecture Polonius-rustc walkthrough A-polonius Area: borrow checker (polonius) E-help-wanted Call for participation: extra help is wanted needs-triage This issue needs triage to classify its nature and status T-compiler Relevant to compiler team
#363 opened Jun 29, 2019 by spastorino
4
Transcribe the Compiler Lecture rustc-chalk integration overview E-help-wanted Call for participation: extra help is wanted needs-triage This issue needs triage to classify its nature and status T-types Relevant to types team
#364 opened Jun 29, 2019 by spastorino
Describe how to swap in local modified crate A-contribution-workflows Area: contribution workflows C-enhancement Category: enhancement E-easy Difficulty: might be a good place for a beginner E-help-wanted Call for participation: extra help is wanted T-bootstrap Relevant to bootstrap team T-compiler Relevant to compiler team
#268 opened Jan 22, 2019 by pnkfelix
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