GSoC 2026: Improving Rust debugging support in GDB

[Horne, Preston M]

Hi all,

My name is Preston and I'm a comp sci master's student at Vanderbilt University. I'm interested in contributing to GDB through Google Summer of Code 2026 and would appreciate some advice/mentorship on a project proposal.

The area I'm drawn to initially is improving the experience of debugging Rust programs. I noticed that the GDB docs Rust section (https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/Rust.html) lists several limitations, and I'd like to understand whether working on that kind of thing, or other Rust improvements, would be a realistic and useful GSoC project? I'm very comfortable with C++ as that is what I spent the majority of my undergraduate courses studying.

Thanks,
Preston