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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:
      367,591,512
    • Recent downloads:
      94,637,870
    • License:
      Zlib OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT
    • Stars:
      1,060
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-11
  • crevice

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

    • Latest version:
      0.20.1
    • Downloads:
      261,647
    • Recent downloads:
      32,135
    • 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:
      1,163,171
    • Recent downloads:
      400,811
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,372
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-11
  • dsa-lib

    A Shader generation tool from TOML to GLSL written in Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.8
    • Downloads:
      11,412
    • Recent downloads:
      57
    • 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:
      0.12.1
    • Downloads:
      8,016,465
    • Recent downloads:
      1,691,093
    • License:
      MIT-0
    • Stars:
      207
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-30
  • 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:
      5,521,409
    • Recent downloads:
      1,030,750
    • 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:
      10,457
    • Recent downloads:
      25
    • 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:
      832,658
    • Recent downloads:
      330,590
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      36
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-23
  • mach-dxcompiler-rs

    Prebuilt, statically-linked DXC.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5+2026.09.11-087be1c.1
    • Downloads:
      458,254
    • Recent downloads:
      76,163
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      1
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-14
  • naga

    Shader translator and validator. Part of the wgpu project

    • Latest version:
      30.0.1
    • Downloads:
      38,510,308
    • Recent downloads:
      11,576,261
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      18,013
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-14
  • nvidia-sdk

    Verified acquisition and staging for NVIDIA graphics SDKs

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      30
    • Recent downloads:
      30
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-10
  • rust-gpu

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

    • License:
      Apache License 2.0
    • Stars:
      3,345
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-14
  • shader-reflect

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

    • Latest version:
      0.2.10
    • Downloads:
      9,718
    • Recent downloads:
      46
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      112
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-04
  • shaderc

    Rust bindings for shaderc

    • Latest version:
      0.10.1
    • Downloads:
      2,471,682
    • Recent downloads:
      476,821
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      286
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-06
  • spirq

    Light weight SPIR-V query utility for graphics.

    • Latest version:
      1.3.0
    • Downloads:
      899,667
    • Recent downloads:
      335,042
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      112
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-04
  • spirv-reflect

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

    • Latest version:
      0.2.3
    • Downloads:
      515,167
    • Recent downloads:
      30,395
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      111
    • Last activity:
      2025-01-08

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