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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:
      706,741
    • Recent downloads:
      49,543
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      665
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-03
  • glutin

    Cross-platform OpenGL context provider.

    • Latest version:
      0.32.3
    • Downloads:
      13,580,043
    • Recent downloads:
      2,374,366
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,048
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-30
  • minifb

    Cross-platform window setup with optional bitmap rendering

    • Latest version:
      0.28.0
    • Downloads:
      801,548
    • Recent downloads:
      79,615
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,135
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-19
  • notan

    A simple portable multimedia layer to create apps or games easily

    • Latest version:
      0.13.0
    • Downloads:
      57,133
    • Recent downloads:
      6,594
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      926
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29
  • piston_window

    The official Piston window wrapper for the Piston game engine

    • Latest version:
      0.132.0
    • Downloads:
      1,550,983
    • Recent downloads:
      94,570
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      158
    • Last activity:
      2024-05-21
  • sdl2

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      2,509,512
    • Recent downloads:
      202,482
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,891
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-12
  • sdl3

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.14.41
    • Downloads:
      68,231
    • Recent downloads:
      24,679
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      239
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-24
  • softbuffer

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.6
    • Downloads:
      3,661,054
    • Recent downloads:
      1,198,429
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      412
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-23
  • winit

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.12
    • Downloads:
      22,506,102
    • Recent downloads:
      3,350,141
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      5,481
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-24

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