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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:
      1.25.0
    • Downloads:
      207,527,569
    • Recent downloads:
      38,565,551
    • License:
      Zlib OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT
    • Stars:
      968
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-31
  • crevice

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

    • Latest version:
      0.18.0
    • Downloads:
      203,257
    • Recent downloads:
      22,181
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      76
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-04
  • cubecl

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

    • Latest version:
      0.9.0
    • Downloads:
      454,717
    • Recent downloads:
      179,713
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,051
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-14
  • dsa-lib

    A Shader generation tool from TOML to GLSL written in Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.8
    • Downloads:
      11,343
    • Recent downloads:
      60
    • 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:
      4,984,165
    • Recent downloads:
      1,032,207
    • License:
      MIT-0
    • Stars:
      196
    • 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:
      3,748,435
    • Recent downloads:
      431,460
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      63
    • Last activity:
      2025-12-15
  • 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:
      10,422
    • Recent downloads:
      31
    • 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:
      68,542
    • Recent downloads:
      41,430
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      34
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-23
  • mach-dxcompiler-rs

    Prebuilt, statically-linked DXC.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4+2024.11.22-df583a3.1
    • Downloads:
      288,964
    • Recent downloads:
      106,660
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      1
    • Last activity:
      2024-12-16
  • naga

    Shader translator and validator. Part of the wgpu project

    • Latest version:
      28.0.0
    • Downloads:
      19,488,785
    • Recent downloads:
      4,416,153
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      16,663
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-15
  • rust-gpu

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

    • License:
      Apache License 2.0
    • Stars:
      2,953
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-14
  • shader-reflect

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

    • Latest version:
      0.2.9
    • Downloads:
      9,658
    • Recent downloads:
      31
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      111
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-23
  • shaderc

    Rust bindings for shaderc

    • Latest version:
      0.10.1
    • Downloads:
      1,414,815
    • Recent downloads:
      159,932
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      285
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-06
  • spirq

    Light weight SPIR-V query utility for graphics.

    • Latest version:
      1.2.2
    • Downloads:
      127,551
    • Recent downloads:
      42,928
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      111
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-23
  • spirv-reflect

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

    • Latest version:
      0.2.3
    • Downloads:
      456,910
    • Recent downloads:
      25,800
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      111
    • Last activity:
      2025-01-08

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