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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:
      911,179
    • Recent downloads:
      53,302
    • 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:
      28,524,314
    • Recent downloads:
      5,146,743
    • 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:
      2,751,957
    • Recent downloads:
      720,170
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,206
    • Last activity:
      2026-05-22

  • 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:
      71,903
    • Recent downloads:
      3,271
    • 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:
      1,826,688
    • Recent downloads:
      57,490
    • 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:
      4,793,336
    • Recent downloads:
      626,621
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,948
    • 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:
      0.18.4
    • Downloads:
      167,574
    • Recent downloads:
      38,142
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      372
    • Last activity:
      2026-07-27

  • softbuffer

    Windowing · UI · Tools

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.8
    • Downloads:
      17,546,979
    • Recent downloads:
      7,104,602
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      497
    • Last activity:
      2026-07-20

  • 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:
      0.7.1
    • Downloads:
      571
    • Recent downloads:
      571
    • License:
      MPL-2.0
    • Stars:
      34
    • Last activity:
      2026-07-12

  • winit

    Windowing

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.13
    • Downloads:
      47,014,624
    • Recent downloads:
      8,963,994
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      6,077
    • Last activity:
      2026-07-23

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