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Windowing

Windowing and Context Creation crates

Crates

  • glfw

    GLFW3 bindings and idiomatic wrapper for Rust.

    • Latest version:
      0.60.0
    • Downloads:
      750,364
    • Recent downloads:
      58,911
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      671
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-03
  • glutin

    Cross-platform OpenGL context provider.

    • Latest version:
      0.32.3
    • Downloads:
      15,736,235
    • Recent downloads:
      2,859,929
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,055
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-26
  • minifb

    Cross-platform window setup with optional bitmap rendering

    • Latest version:
      0.28.0
    • Downloads:
      876,422
    • Recent downloads:
      99,895
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,146
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-18
  • notan

    A simple portable multimedia layer to create apps or games easily

    • Latest version:
      0.13.0
    • Downloads:
      61,171
    • Recent downloads:
      5,716
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      937
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-18
  • piston_window

    The official Piston window wrapper for the Piston game engine

    • Latest version:
      0.132.0
    • Downloads:
      1,632,488
    • Recent downloads:
      108,671
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      158
    • Last activity:
      2024-05-21
  • sdl2

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      2,726,456
    • Recent downloads:
      281,893
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,921
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-12
  • sdl3

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.16.1
    • Downloads:
      88,514
    • Recent downloads:
      28,906
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      263
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-20
  • softbuffer

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.6
    • Downloads:
      4,789,032
    • Recent downloads:
      1,523,652
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      436
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-13
  • winit

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.12
    • Downloads:
      26,008,859
    • Recent downloads:
      4,541,125
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      5,617
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-24

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