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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:
      738,339
    • Recent downloads:
      59,773
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      672
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-03
  • glutin

    Cross-platform OpenGL context provider.

    • Latest version:
      0.32.3
    • Downloads:
      15,061,312
    • Recent downloads:
      2,726,544
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,052
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-05
  • minifb

    Cross-platform window setup with optional bitmap rendering

    • Latest version:
      0.28.0
    • Downloads:
      855,569
    • Recent downloads:
      100,282
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,144
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-19
  • notan

    A simple portable multimedia layer to create apps or games easily

    • Latest version:
      0.13.0
    • Downloads:
      60,126
    • Recent downloads:
      6,261
    • 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:
      1,613,246
    • Recent downloads:
      115,189
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      158
    • Last activity:
      2024-05-21
  • sdl2

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      2,656,405
    • Recent downloads:
      263,255
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,913
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-12
  • sdl3

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.15.1
    • Downloads:
      83,239
    • Recent downloads:
      29,472
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      259
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-06
  • softbuffer

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.6
    • Downloads:
      4,527,984
    • Recent downloads:
      1,517,473
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      430
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-04
  • winit

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.12
    • Downloads:
      24,978,844
    • Recent downloads:
      4,255,646
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      5,568
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-08

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