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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:
      636,452
    • Recent downloads:
      53,556
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      658
    • Last activity:
      2024-11-28
  • glutin

    Cross-platform OpenGL context provider.

    • Latest version:
      0.32.2
    • Downloads:
      10,211,731
    • Recent downloads:
      2,943,253
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,029
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-20
  • minifb

    Cross-platform window setup with optional bitmap rendering

    • Latest version:
      0.28.0
    • Downloads:
      691,545
    • Recent downloads:
      81,283
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,091
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-13
  • notan

    A simple portable multimedia layer to create apps or games easily

    • Latest version:
      0.13.0
    • Downloads:
      47,435
    • Recent downloads:
      7,550
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      894
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29
  • piston_window

    The official Piston window wrapper for the Piston game engine

    • Latest version:
      0.132.0
    • Downloads:
      1,410,811
    • Recent downloads:
      111,794
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      158
    • Last activity:
      2024-05-21
  • sdl2

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.37.0
    • Downloads:
      2,235,221
    • Recent downloads:
      172,913
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,833
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-31
  • sdl3

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.14.25
    • Downloads:
      35,437
    • Recent downloads:
      20,829
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      171
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-21
  • softbuffer

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.6
    • Downloads:
      2,176,289
    • Recent downloads:
      611,928
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      379
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-20
  • winit

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.9
    • Downloads:
      17,780,032
    • Recent downloads:
      3,820,870
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      5,223
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-20

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