HACKER Q&A
📣 fud101

Low hanging fruit projects for gaining open source clout


I think there is a trend of using Rust to do X where X is something already done in Python/Javascript/Go/whatever and making it go zoom.

Are there any such projects for a time rich unemployed hacker of average ability which might be a fruitful endeavour

aside, what's a good reference for learning enough rust to hack up something useful for someone who has little interest in the language

  👤 rootnod3 Accepted Answer ✓
Honestly, if you have little interest in the language, then why do it? If it's to see if you might actually like it, pick anything, get a feel for it. Or do it in a language you actually have interest in.

Why subject yourself to a language you have no interest in just to gain clout?

👤 pabs3
If you are rich, start funding work on important projects, like NLnet and Sovereign Tech do. Personally I would start with funding GPL compliance actions by Software Freedom Conservancy, the FSF LibrePhone work (and all other firmware reverse engineering efforts), Bootstrappable/Reproducible Builds, distributed code review, privacy fixes, embedded code copy removal, building from source, dynamic linking (esp for Rust), static analysis tools and libre machine learning training. These all need hackers with time on their hands too of course.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/ https://librephone.fsf.org/ https://bootstrappable.org/ https://reproducible-builds.org/ https://github.com/crev-dev/ https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCopies https://wiki.debian.org/AutoGeneratedFiles https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking#Rust https://github.com/collab-qa/check-all-the-things https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy/