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Windowing

Windowing and Context Creation crates

Crates

  • glfw

    GLFW3 bindings and idiomatic wrapper for Rust.

    • Latest version:
      0.61.0
    • Downloads:
      804,253
    • Recent downloads:
      45,012
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      679
    • Last activity:
      2025-12-06
  • glutin

    Cross-platform OpenGL context provider.

    • Latest version:
      0.32.3
    • Downloads:
      19,504,305
    • Recent downloads:
      3,321,215
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,070
    • Last activity:
      2025-11-03
  • minifb

    Cross-platform window setup with optional bitmap rendering

    • Latest version:
      0.28.0
    • Downloads:
      1,126,656
    • Recent downloads:
      223,717
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,170
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-21
  • notan

    A simple portable multimedia layer to create apps or games easily

    • Latest version:
      0.14.0
    • Downloads:
      65,311
    • Recent downloads:
      3,521
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      957
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-17
  • piston_window

    The official Piston Window for the Piston game engine

    • Latest version:
      0.146.0
    • Downloads:
      1,713,209
    • Recent downloads:
      68,792
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      162
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-05
  • sdl2

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      3,169,361
    • Recent downloads:
      386,947
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,937
    • Last activity:
      2025-12-31
  • sdl3

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.17.3
    • Downloads:
      109,726
    • Recent downloads:
      17,964
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      305
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-02
  • softbuffer

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.8
    • Downloads:
      6,817,035
    • Recent downloads:
      1,803,902
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      461
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-07
  • winit

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.12
    • Downloads:
      31,915,930
    • Recent downloads:
      5,179,856
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      5,804
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-06

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