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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:
      694,493
    • Recent downloads:
      48,261
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      663
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-03
  • glutin

    Cross-platform OpenGL context provider.

    • Latest version:
      0.32.3
    • Downloads:
      13,014,271
    • Recent downloads:
      2,356,217
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,045
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-30
  • minifb

    Cross-platform window setup with optional bitmap rendering

    • Latest version:
      0.28.0
    • Downloads:
      781,335
    • Recent downloads:
      73,347
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,134
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-19
  • notan

    A simple portable multimedia layer to create apps or games easily

    • Latest version:
      0.13.0
    • Downloads:
      55,831
    • Recent downloads:
      7,217
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      925
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29
  • piston_window

    The official Piston window wrapper for the Piston game engine

    • Latest version:
      0.132.0
    • Downloads:
      1,529,081
    • Recent downloads:
      97,317
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      158
    • Last activity:
      2024-05-21
  • sdl2

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      2,457,013
    • Recent downloads:
      186,864
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,882
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-12
  • sdl3

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.14.36
    • Downloads:
      60,898
    • Recent downloads:
      22,394
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      235
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-28
  • softbuffer

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.6
    • Downloads:
      3,335,026
    • Recent downloads:
      1,057,759
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      410
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-28
  • winit

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.12
    • Downloads:
      21,670,514
    • Recent downloads:
      3,254,761
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      5,440
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-03

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