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Windowing

Windowing and Context Creation crates

Crates

  • glfw

    GLFW3 bindings and idiomatic wrapper for Rust.

    • Latest version:
      0.59.0
    • Downloads:
      660,471
    • Recent downloads:
      48,386
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      659
    • Last activity:
      2024-11-28
  • glutin

    Cross-platform OpenGL context provider.

    • Latest version:
      0.32.3
    • Downloads:
      11,456,631
    • Recent downloads:
      2,841,516
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,036
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-30
  • minifb

    Cross-platform window setup with optional bitmap rendering

    • Latest version:
      0.28.0
    • Downloads:
      727,073
    • Recent downloads:
      83,588
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,114
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-27
  • notan

    A simple portable multimedia layer to create apps or games easily

    • Latest version:
      0.13.0
    • Downloads:
      51,187
    • Recent downloads:
      7,508
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      913
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29
  • piston_window

    The official Piston window wrapper for the Piston game engine

    • Latest version:
      0.132.0
    • Downloads:
      1,463,213
    • Recent downloads:
      108,892
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      159
    • Last activity:
      2024-05-21
  • sdl2

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.37.0
    • Downloads:
      2,320,912
    • Recent downloads:
      166,901
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,861
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-31
  • sdl3

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.14.28
    • Downloads:
      45,396
    • Recent downloads:
      20,351
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      203
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-02
  • softbuffer

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.6
    • Downloads:
      2,583,540
    • Recent downloads:
      707,693
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      391
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-19
  • winit

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.11
    • Downloads:
      19,494,688
    • Recent downloads:
      3,751,137
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      5,338
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-27

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