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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:
      675,740
    • Recent downloads:
      46,160
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      661
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-05
  • glutin

    Cross-platform OpenGL context provider.

    • Latest version:
      0.32.3
    • Downloads:
      12,228,520
    • Recent downloads:
      2,405,826
    • 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:
      751,544
    • Recent downloads:
      74,439
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,122
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-19
  • notan

    A simple portable multimedia layer to create apps or games easily

    • Latest version:
      0.13.0
    • Downloads:
      53,308
    • Recent downloads:
      7,094
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      921
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29
  • piston_window

    The official Piston window wrapper for the Piston game engine

    • Latest version:
      0.132.0
    • Downloads:
      1,493,007
    • Recent downloads:
      100,503
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      158
    • Last activity:
      2024-05-21
  • sdl2

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.37.0
    • Downloads:
      2,385,021
    • Recent downloads:
      171,519
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,875
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-23
  • sdl3

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.14.35
    • Downloads:
      52,654
    • Recent downloads:
      20,675
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      229
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-05
  • softbuffer

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.6
    • Downloads:
      2,959,443
    • Recent downloads:
      872,025
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      400
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-16
  • winit

    Cross-platform window creation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.30.11
    • Downloads:
      20,569,470
    • Recent downloads:
      3,310,131
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      5,396
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-02

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