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Shaders

Languages and tools for writing, compiling, and using shaders.

Crates

  • bytemuck

    A crate for mucking around with piles of bytes.

    • Latest version:
      1.23.1
    • Downloads:
      126,921,291
    • Recent downloads:
      21,576,721
    • License:
      Zlib OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT
    • Stars:
      877
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-22
  • crevice

    Create GLSL-compatible versions of structs with explicitly-initialized padding

    • Latest version:
      0.18.0
    • Downloads:
      139,476
    • Recent downloads:
      15,884
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      73
    • Last activity:
      2025-02-20
  • cubecl

    Multi-platform high-performance compute language extension for Rust.

    • Latest version:
      0.6.0
    • Downloads:
      121,917
    • Recent downloads:
      61,348
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,606
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-31
  • dsa-lib

    A Shader generation tool from TOML to GLSL written in Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.8
    • Downloads:
      10,286
    • Recent downloads:
      1,563
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-03
  • encase

    Provides a mechanism to lay out data into GPU buffers ensuring WGSL's memory layout requirements are met

    • Latest version:
      0.11.1
    • Downloads:
      2,830,272
    • Recent downloads:
      376,376
    • License:
      MIT-0
    • Stars:
      179
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-23
  • hassle-rs

    HLSL compiler library, this crate provides an FFI layer and idiomatic rust wrappers for the new DXC HLSL compiler and validator.

    • Latest version:
      0.12.0
    • Downloads:
      2,762,117
    • Recent downloads:
      194,961
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      61
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-13
  • include-merkle

    Functionality for generating a Merkle-tree of a given text file with include references, replacing includes paths with a deterministic versioned identity, and also functionality for flattening include directives into a single file. The primary motivation is compiling shaders for various graphics APIs, but the the functionality can apply to a variety of source code parsing use cases.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      9,814
    • Recent downloads:
      901
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      7
    • Last activity:
      2022-04-12
  • inline-spirv

    Compile GLSL/HLSL/WGSL and inline SPIR-V right inside your crate.

    • Latest version:
      0.2.1
    • Downloads:
      21,790
    • Recent downloads:
      4,272
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      34
    • Last activity:
      2024-08-02
  • mach-dxcompiler-rs

    Prebuilt, statically-linked DXC.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4+2024.11.22-df583a3.1
    • Downloads:
      100,485
    • Recent downloads:
      42,836
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      1
    • Last activity:
      2024-12-16
  • naga

    Shader translator and validator. Part of the wgpu project

    • Latest version:
      26.0.0
    • Downloads:
      10,498,338
    • Recent downloads:
      1,742,012
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      14,804
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-04
  • rust-gpu

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

    • License:
      Apache License 2.0
    • Stars:
      2,225
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-04
  • shader-reflect

    SPIR-V/GLSL/HLSL shader interface reflection to JSON. (CLI)

    • Latest version:
      0.2.9
    • Downloads:
      8,696
    • Recent downloads:
      1,169
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      111
    • Last activity:
      2024-11-28
  • shaderc

    Rust bindings for shaderc

    • Latest version:
      0.9.1
    • Downloads:
      1,084,250
    • Recent downloads:
      97,734
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      273
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-13
  • spirq

    Light weight SPIR-V query utility for graphics.

    • Latest version:
      1.2.2
    • Downloads:
      72,730
    • Recent downloads:
      9,962
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      111
    • Last activity:
      2024-11-28
  • spirv-reflect

    Reflection API in rust for SPIR-V shader byte code, intended for Vulkan applications.

    • Latest version:
      0.2.3
    • Downloads:
      398,173
    • Recent downloads:
      10,205
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      110
    • Last activity:
      2025-01-08

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