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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:
      680,703
    • Recent downloads:
      46,948
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      662
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-05
  • glutin

    Cross-platform OpenGL context provider.

    • Latest version:
      0.32.3
    • Downloads:
      12,420,472
    • Recent downloads:
      2,363,482
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,040
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-30
  • minifb

    Cross-platform window setup with optional bitmap rendering

    • Latest version:
      0.28.0
    • Downloads:
      759,122
    • Recent downloads:
      72,560
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,124
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-19
  • notan

    A simple portable multimedia layer to create apps or games easily

    • Latest version:
      0.13.0
    • Downloads:
      54,107
    • Recent downloads:
      7,207
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      920
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29
  • piston_window

    The official Piston window wrapper for the Piston game engine

    • Latest version:
      0.132.0
    • Downloads:
      1,502,303
    • Recent downloads:
      97,794
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      158
    • Last activity:
      2024-05-21
  • sdl2

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      2,401,706
    • Recent downloads:
      174,764
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,881
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-12
  • sdl3

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.14.35
    • Downloads:
      54,388
    • Recent downloads:
      20,912
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      229
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-05
  • softbuffer

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.6
    • Downloads:
      3,049,499
    • Recent downloads:
      915,553
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      403
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-16
  • winit

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.11
    • Downloads:
      20,838,311
    • Recent downloads:
      3,276,163
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      5,404
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-13

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