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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:
      721,061
    • Recent downloads:
      56,592
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      668
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-03
  • glutin

    Cross-platform OpenGL context provider.

    • Latest version:
      0.32.3
    • Downloads:
      14,299,619
    • Recent downloads:
      2,530,282
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,053
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-30
  • minifb

    Cross-platform window setup with optional bitmap rendering

    • Latest version:
      0.28.0
    • Downloads:
      826,938
    • Recent downloads:
      93,020
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,142
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-19
  • notan

    A simple portable multimedia layer to create apps or games easily

    • Latest version:
      0.13.0
    • Downloads:
      58,475
    • Recent downloads:
      6,736
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      932
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29
  • piston_window

    The official Piston window wrapper for the Piston game engine

    • Latest version:
      0.132.0
    • Downloads:
      1,585,400
    • Recent downloads:
      113,239
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      158
    • Last activity:
      2024-05-21
  • sdl2

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      2,576,189
    • Recent downloads:
      235,895
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,904
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-12
  • sdl3

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.15.1
    • Downloads:
      75,210
    • Recent downloads:
      27,319
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      245
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-14
  • softbuffer

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.6
    • Downloads:
      4,146,633
    • Recent downloads:
      1,407,265
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      424
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-08
  • winit

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.12
    • Downloads:
      23,742,417
    • Recent downloads:
      3,821,919
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      5,531
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-12

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