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Windowing

Windowing and Context Creation crates

Crates

  • glfw

    3D Rendering · Windowing

    GLFW3 bindings and idiomatic wrapper for Rust.

    • Latest version:
      0.63.0
    • Downloads:
      990,431
    • Recent downloads:
      71,374
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      694
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-23

  • glutin

    3D Rendering · Windowing

    Cross-platform OpenGL context provider.

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    • Latest version:
      0.32.3
    • Downloads:
      38,046,657
    • Recent downloads:
      8,941,042
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,087
    • Last activity:
      2026-10-27

  • minifb

    Windowing

    Cross-platform window setup with optional bitmap rendering

    • Latest version:
      0.29.0
    • Downloads:
      3,356,686
    • Recent downloads:
      552,527
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,224
    • Last activity:
      2026-10-19

  • 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:
      79,293
    • Recent downloads:
      6,908
    • 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:
      0.148.0
    • Downloads:
      1,887,980
    • Recent downloads:
      54,712
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      161
    • Last activity:
      2026-10-11

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      5,671,605
    • Recent downloads:
      807,072
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,954
    • 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:
      0.22.0
    • Downloads:
      274,981
    • Recent downloads:
      102,431
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      398
    • Last activity:
      2026-11-02

  • softbuffer

    Windowing · UI · Tools

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.8
    • Downloads:
      31,611,688
    • Recent downloads:
      13,091,453
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      511
    • Last activity:
      2026-10-26

  • 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:
      0.9.1
    • Downloads:
      727
    • Recent downloads:
      71
    • License:
      MPL-2.0
    • Stars:
      39
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-29

  • winit

    Windowing

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.13
    • Downloads:
      63,045,610
    • Recent downloads:
      14,979,392
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      6,245
    • Last activity:
      2026-11-02

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