Issues

• M-DEBUG-SYMBOLS, internal services should always enable debug symbols

  request
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#63 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Aug 31, 2026

• M-TARGET-FEATURES ... must not prevent a crate from compiling

  easy-prrequest
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#60 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Aug 14, 2026

• M-ERRORS-CANONICAL-STRUCTS - Don't add is_foo() and similar if no one would act on these.

  issue
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#56 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Jul 13, 2026

• Remove "*.png"

  issue
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#52 · Filter by author 40tude opened on Apr 5, 2026
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• For M-UNSAFE also recommend cargo-careful

  easy-prrequest
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#51 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Feb 5, 2026

• Clarify what guidelines apply to

  request
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#50 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Feb 5, 2026

• Add Changelog to Guidelines

  issuerequest
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#49 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Feb 5, 2026

• Explain in M-STATIC-VERIFICATION general motivation for custom lints we picked & expand

  easy-prissue
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#48 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Feb 5, 2026

• Also mentioned testing issues in M-AVOID-STATICS

  easy-prissue
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#47 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Feb 5, 2026

• Link in M-TYPES-SEND explanation how autotraits and Send work

  easy-prissue
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#46 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Feb 5, 2026

• Clarify M-DI-HIERARCHY what dyn traits are

  easy-prissue
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#45 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Feb 5, 2026

• Consider breaking up M-LOG-STRUCTURED into separate guidelines, possibly in Telemetry chapter.

  issue
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#44 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Feb 5, 2026

• M-PANIC-IS-STOP should clarify that it does not suggest that people should "abort" on panic

  issue
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#37 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Jan 7, 2026

• guidelines.txt exceeds maximum allowed tokens with Claude Code

  infra
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#33 · Filter by author 40tude opened on Nov 27, 2025
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• Guideline on panic restriction and change default lint settings

  request
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#32 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Nov 19, 2025

• No Date in the all.txt

  easy-prissue
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#31 · Filter by author 40tude opened on Nov 18, 2025
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• M-MOCKABLE-SYSCALLS (or similar) should include (for users) easy way to simulate "good" and "bad" API behaviors / data

  request
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#28 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Nov 5, 2025

• M-IMPL-ASREF: clarify additional constraints on where to apply this rule

  microsoft/rust-guidelines#24 · Filter by author martintmk opened on Oct 15, 2025
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• Clarify M-MOCKABLE-SYSCALLS that enum variant payload methods should not be pub (or wrap entire pattern in struct).

  microsoft/rust-guidelines#23 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Oct 14, 2025

• Clarify M-SMALLER-CRATES is mostly orthogonal to whether users should see the smaller crates.

  issue
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#22 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Sep 29, 2025

• Guideline Idea Tracker

  request
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#16 · Filter by author geeknoid opened on Aug 23, 2025
  

• Adversarial trait issues

  request
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#12 · Filter by author ralfbiedert opened on Aug 14, 2025

• M-DOC-INLINE is too broad

  issue
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#5 · Filter by author sandersaares opened on Aug 6, 2025

• M-NO-GLOB-REEXPORTS is excessively broad

  issue
  microsoft/rust-guidelines#4 · Filter by author sandersaares opened on Aug 6, 2025
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