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Windowing

Windowing and Context Creation crates

Crates

  • glfw

    3D Rendering · Windowing

    GLFW3 bindings and idiomatic wrapper for Rust.

    • Latest version:
      0.62.0
    • Downloads:
      957,923
    • Recent downloads:
      66,733
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      693
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-25

  • glutin

    3D Rendering · Windowing

    Cross-platform OpenGL context provider.

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    • Latest version:
      0.32.3
    • Downloads:
      32,326,859
    • Recent downloads:
      5,678,752
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,087
    • Last activity:
      2026-07-24

  • minifb

    Windowing

    Cross-platform window setup with optional bitmap rendering

    • Latest version:
      0.28.0
    • Downloads:
      3,116,942
    • Recent downloads:
      569,281
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,211
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-19

  • notan

    2D Rendering · Audio · Game Engines · Text Rendering · Input · Windowing

    A simple portable multimedia layer to create apps or games easily

    • Latest version:
      0.14.0
    • Downloads:
      76,207
    • Recent downloads:
      5,438
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      970
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-17

  • piston_window

    Windowing

    The official Piston Window for the Piston game engine

    • Latest version:
      0.147.0
    • Downloads:
      1,863,210
    • Recent downloads:
      55,858
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      160
    • Last activity:
      2026-04-13

  • sdl2

    2D Rendering · Audio · Game Engines · Text Rendering · Input · Windowing

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      5,296,103
    • Recent downloads:
      734,704
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,951
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-22

  • sdl3

    2D Rendering · Audio · Game Engines · 3D Rendering · Input · Windowing

    Bindings to SDL3, a cross-platform library to abstract the platform-specific details for building applications.

    • Latest version:
      0.20.0
    • Downloads:
      208,353
    • Recent downloads:
      56,799
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      382
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-14

  • softbuffer

    Windowing · UI · Tools

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.8
    • Downloads:
      24,273,416
    • Recent downloads:
      9,647,447
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      506
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-05

  • verdant

    2D Rendering · Windowing

    A windowing and rendering library, made to be accessible. Clean API, SDF-based rendering, multi-window support, built on wgpu and winit.

    • Latest version:
      0.9.0
    • Downloads:
      705
    • Recent downloads:
      221
    • License:
      MPL-2.0
    • Stars:
      37
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-08

  • winit

    Windowing

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.13
    • Downloads:
      53,989,553
    • Recent downloads:
      10,341,011
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      6,167
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-19

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