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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:
      948,218
    • Recent downloads:
      65,705
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      692
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-25

  • glutin

    3D Rendering · Windowing

    Cross-platform OpenGL context provider.

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    • Latest version:
      0.32.3
    • Downloads:
      31,283,327
    • Recent downloads:
      5,476,405
    • 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:
      3,019,589
    • Recent downloads:
      660,148
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,208
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-31

  • 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:
      73,968
    • Recent downloads:
      3,802
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      971
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-17

  • piston_window

    Windowing

    The official Piston Window for the Piston game engine

    • Latest version:
      0.147.0
    • Downloads:
      1,854,224
    • Recent downloads:
      58,602
    • 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:
      5,164,168
    • Recent downloads:
      712,222
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,950
    • 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:
      0.19.0
    • Downloads:
      197,450
    • Recent downloads:
      52,915
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      379
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-07

  • softbuffer

    Windowing · UI · Tools

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.8
    • Downloads:
      22,455,616
    • Recent downloads:
      9,247,236
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      504
    • 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:
      702
    • Recent downloads:
      351
    • License:
      MPL-2.0
    • Stars:
      35
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-08

  • winit

    Windowing

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.13
    • Downloads:
      52,080,357
    • Recent downloads:
      10,033,782
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      6,139
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-04

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