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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:
      1.25.2
    • Downloads:
      317,651,609
    • Recent downloads:
      80,743,419
    • License:
      Zlib OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT
    • Stars:
      1,031
    • Last activity:
      2026-07-19
  • crevice

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

    • Latest version:
      0.20.1
    • Downloads:
      244,485
    • Recent downloads:
      27,357
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      76
    • Last activity:
      2026-06-29
  • cubecl

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

    • Latest version:
      0.10.0
    • Downloads:
      963,594
    • Recent downloads:
      381,227
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,301
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-01
  • dsa-lib

    A Shader generation tool from TOML to GLSL written in Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.8
    • Downloads:
      11,385
    • Recent downloads:
      31
    • 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:
      7,131,302
    • Recent downloads:
      1,496,848
    • License:
      MIT-0
    • Stars:
      206
    • 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:
      5,036,789
    • Recent downloads:
      982,335
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      71
    • Last activity:
      2026-07-01
  • 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:
      10,451
    • Recent downloads:
      21
    • 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:
      661,101
    • Recent downloads:
      347,195
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      36
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-23
  • mach-dxcompiler-rs

    Prebuilt, statically-linked DXC.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4+2024.11.22-df583a3.1
    • Downloads:
      415,942
    • Recent downloads:
      64,236
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      1
    • Last activity:
      2024-12-16
  • naga

    Shader translator and validator. Part of the wgpu project

    • Latest version:
      30.0.0
    • Downloads:
      32,519,371
    • Recent downloads:
      9,661,898
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      17,708
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-03
  • rust-gpu

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

    • License:
      Apache License 2.0
    • Stars:
      3,251
    • Last activity:
      2026-07-31
  • shader-reflect

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

    • Latest version:
      0.2.9
    • Downloads:
      9,700
    • Recent downloads:
      31
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      113
    • Last activity:
      2026-07-28
  • shaderc

    Rust bindings for shaderc

    • Latest version:
      0.10.1
    • Downloads:
      2,221,054
    • Recent downloads:
      486,022
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      286
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-06
  • spirq

    Light weight SPIR-V query utility for graphics.

    • Latest version:
      1.2.2
    • Downloads:
      725,710
    • Recent downloads:
      351,552
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      113
    • Last activity:
      2026-07-28
  • spirv-reflect

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

    • Latest version:
      0.2.3
    • Downloads:
      501,118
    • Recent downloads:
      28,392
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      111
    • Last activity:
      2025-01-08

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