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OpenSrc lists 146 Rust repositories with open issues for new contributors, and 78 of them are first-PR friendly. Between them they have 2,448 open good first issues and 1,894 help-wanted issues. The median welcome score is 75/100, and the best-scored right now are gleam-lang/gleam, uutils/coreutils and PyO3/pyo3. Most are about Machine Learning & AI, Compilers & Languages and Databases.

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  • gleam-lang/gleam

    ⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!

    29good first issues+153 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Compilers
    • Field: OS
    • Stars:21.9K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~19h
    Score96 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • uutils/coreutils

    Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

    19good first issues
    • Rust
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:24.2K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~2h
    Score95 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • PyO3/pyo3

    Rust bindings for the Python interpreter

    14good first issues+5 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Backend
    • Field: Compilers
    • Stars:16.2K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~21h
    Score93 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • oven-sh/bun

    Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one

    31good first issues
    • Rust
    • Field: Testing
    • Stars:96.1K
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score92 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • nushell/nushell

    A new type of shell

    10good first issues+19 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Stars:40.6K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~9h
    Score92 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • zellij-org/zellij

    A terminal workspace with batteries included

    11good first issues+39 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:35.6K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~34h
    Score90 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • PRQL/prql

    PRQL is a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement

    7good first issues+20 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Databases
    • Stars:10.9K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~30m
    Score90 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • topgrade-rs/topgrade

    Upgrade all the things

    10good first issues+17 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Field: OS
    • Stars:4.6K
    • GPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~10h
    Score90 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • GyulyVGC/sniffnet

    Comfortably monitor your network traffic 🕵️‍♂️

    10good first issues+10 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Networking
    • Field: Security
    • Stars:41.3K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~5h
    Score89 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • ruffle-rs/ruffle

    A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

    7good first issues+5 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Stars:18.6K
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~6h
    Score89 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • diesel-rs/diesel

    A safe, extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust

    8good first issues+27 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Databases
    • Stars:14.2K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~7h
    Score89 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • lakehq/sail

    Drop-in Apache Spark replacement written in Rust, unifying batch processing, stream processing, and…

    19good first issues+34 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Field: Databases
    • Stars:3.4K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~27h
    Score89 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • tracel-ai/burn

    Burn is a next generation tensor library and Deep Learning Framework that doesn't compromise on flexibility…

    6good first issues+4 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Field: Graphics
    • Stars:16K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~16h
    Score88 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • paradedb/paradedb

    One Postgres for your application data, full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregations. Home of the…

    22good first issues
    • Rust
    • Field: Databases
    • Field: Data Science
    • Stars:9.3K
    • AGPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~31h
    Score87 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • lycheeverse/lychee

    ⚡ Fast, async, stream-based link checker written in Rust. Finds broken URLs and mail addresses inside…

    7good first issues+9 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Stars:4K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~30h
    Score87 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • rtk-ai/rtk

    CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero…

    197good first issues+358 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:82K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score86 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • google/comprehensive-rust

    This is the Rust course used by the Android team at Google. It provides you the material to quickly teach…

    27good first issues+20 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Mobile
    • Stars:33.4K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score86 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • Automattic/harper

    Offline, privacy-first grammar checker. Fast, open-source, Rust-powered

    41good first issues+8 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Editors
    • Stars:16K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~6h
    Score86 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • risingwavelabs/risingwave

    Event streaming platform for agentic AI. Continuously ingest, transform, and serve event streams in real…

    51good first issues
    • Rust
    • Field: Databases
    • Field: Data Science
    • Stars:9.4K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~2d
    Score86 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • lumen-oss/lux

    A luxurious package manager for Lua

    14good first issues
    • Rust
    • Stars:997
    • LGPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~2h
    Score86 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • GraphiteEditor/Graphite

    Community-built comprehensive 2D content creation appplication for graphic design, digital art, and…

    55good first issues+8 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Graphics
    • Field: Editors
    • Stars:27.4K
    • Apache-2.0
    • replies in ~2h
    Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • oxc-project/oxc

    ⚓ A collection of high-performance JavaScript tools.

    4good first issues
    • Rust
    • Field: Compilers
    • Stars:22.9K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~9h
    Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • gfx-rs/wgpu

    A cross-platform, safe, pure-Rust graphics API.

    9good first issues
    • Rust
    • Field: Graphics
    • Field: Backend
    • Stars:18.2K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~14h
    Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • rerun-io/rerun

    Visualize, query, and stream to train on multimodal robotics data.

    8good first issues+6 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Embedded
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Stars:11.5K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~2d
    Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • apache/datafusion

    Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine

    25good first issues+14 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Databases
    • Field: Data Science
    • Stars:9.4K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~12h
    Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • prefix-dev/pixi

    Powerful system-level package manager for Linux, macOS and Windows written in Rust – building on top of the…

    32good first issues+29 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: OS
    • Stars:7.8K
    • BSD-3-Clause
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • Rust-GPU/rust-gpu

    🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧

    4good first issues+10 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Graphics
    • Field: Compilers
    • Stars:3.4K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~12h
    Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • nextstrain/nextclade

    Viral genome alignment, mutation calling, clade assignment, quality checks and phylogenetic placement

    27good first issues+34 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Scientific Computing
    • Stars:263
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • jj-vcs/jj

    A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

    8good first issues
    • Rust
    • Stars:31.8K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~4h
    Score84 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • tursodatabase/turso

    A SQL database in Rust: SQLite-compatible, now also speaking Postgres (experimental). The LLVM of databases.

    18good first issues+41 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Databases
    • Field: Embedded
    • Stars:24.4K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score84 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

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