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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:
      668,265
    • Recent downloads:
      45,727
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      660
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-05
  • glutin

    Cross-platform OpenGL context provider.

    • Latest version:
      0.32.3
    • Downloads:
      11,903,716
    • Recent downloads:
      2,573,888
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,036
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-30
  • minifb

    Cross-platform window setup with optional bitmap rendering

    • Latest version:
      0.28.0
    • Downloads:
      740,147
    • Recent downloads:
      78,567
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,120
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-19
  • notan

    A simple portable multimedia layer to create apps or games easily

    • Latest version:
      0.13.0
    • Downloads:
      52,295
    • Recent downloads:
      7,293
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      916
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29
  • piston_window

    The official Piston window wrapper for the Piston game engine

    • Latest version:
      0.132.0
    • Downloads:
      1,478,991
    • Recent downloads:
      103,120
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      159
    • Last activity:
      2024-05-21
  • sdl2

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.37.0
    • Downloads:
      2,354,851
    • Recent downloads:
      166,675
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,864
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-22
  • sdl3

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.14.31
    • Downloads:
      49,146
    • Recent downloads:
      20,143
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      219
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-09
  • softbuffer

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.6
    • Downloads:
      2,801,119
    • Recent downloads:
      804,103
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      399
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-16
  • winit

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.11
    • Downloads:
      20,108,395
    • Recent downloads:
      3,459,763
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      5,371
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-22

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