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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:
      1.24.0
    • Downloads:
      152,882,173
    • Recent downloads:
      27,279,928
    • License:
      Zlib OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT
    • Stars:
      906
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-03
  • crevice

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

    • Latest version:
      0.18.0
    • Downloads:
      167,981
    • Recent downloads:
      29,595
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      75
    • Last activity:
      2025-02-20
  • cubecl

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

    • Latest version:
      0.7.0
    • Downloads:
      225,043
    • Recent downloads:
      107,619
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,753
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-24
  • dsa-lib

    A Shader generation tool from TOML to GLSL written in Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.8
    • Downloads:
      11,239
    • Recent downloads:
      1,036
    • 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:
      0.12.0
    • Downloads:
      3,529,993
    • Recent downloads:
      727,248
    • License:
      MIT-0
    • Stars:
      184
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-12
  • 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:
      3,109,075
    • Recent downloads:
      360,405
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      61
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-23
  • 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:
      10,371
    • Recent downloads:
      594
    • 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:
      25,708
    • Recent downloads:
      4,841
    • 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:
      149,443
    • Recent downloads:
      52,354
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      1
    • Last activity:
      2024-12-16
  • naga

    Shader translator and validator. Part of the wgpu project

    • Latest version:
      27.0.3
    • Downloads:
      13,410,265
    • Recent downloads:
      3,022,877
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      15,393
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-24
  • rust-gpu

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

    • License:
      Apache License 2.0
    • Stars:
      2,454
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-22
  • shader-reflect

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

    • Latest version:
      0.2.9
    • Downloads:
      9,598
    • Recent downloads:
      950
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      111
    • Last activity:
      2024-11-28
  • shaderc

    Rust bindings for shaderc

    • Latest version:
      0.10.1
    • Downloads:
      1,189,502
    • Recent downloads:
      110,808
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      282
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-06
  • spirq

    Light weight SPIR-V query utility for graphics.

    • Latest version:
      1.2.2
    • Downloads:
      82,153
    • Recent downloads:
      10,622
    • 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:
      418,247
    • Recent downloads:
      20,771
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      110
    • Last activity:
      2025-01-08

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