Re: Interested in contributing to GCC Rust

[Arthur Cohen]

Hi there!

On 6/30/25 9:05 AM, JAYATHEERTH K wrote:

Hi all,

I'm Jayatheerth, a computer science student interested in compilers
and systems programming. I’ve recently come across the GCC Rust
project and would love to contribute.

I’ve previously contributed to Git (the version control system), so
I’m familiar with workflows like `git format-patch`, `git send-email`,
and communicating via mailing lists. I’m also comfortable working in
large C and Rust codebases.

I’ve taken a compiler design course at university, so I understand the
theoretical concepts (lexing, parsing, ASTs, IR, etc.), but I’d like
to gain more practical experience. I’ve gone through the README and
the Developer Book linked in the GCC Rust GitHub repository.

If there are any additional docs, resources, or beginner-friendly
tasks I could start with, I’d really appreciate the guidance.

Looking forward to learning and contributing.

Thank you,

- Jayatheerth

We have a list of good contributions for newcomers which you can find here:

https://github.com/rust-GCC/gccrs/issues/?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Agood-first-pr



https://gcc-rust.zulipchat.com/



Best,

--
Arthur Cohen <arthur.co...@embecosm.com>
Toolchain Engineer
Embecosm SAS

Thank you so much for your interest! We do most of our development on our github repository, but we also accept patch-based contributions - so use whichever system you feel more comfortable with. Feel free to ask here for any issues you may run into, or if you'd like you can also join our Zulip where we do most of our communication: I hope you have fun contributing to the project! Let me know what I can do to help :)

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