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Top 23 Rust OpenGL Projects
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Terminal emulator Alacritty, for instance. The version in the Debian Stable repo is dated— Alacritty of this version uses a .yml config file, but newer versions have switched to .toml.
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Project mention: A (not so) small library for terminal based game development | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-23
If pygamelib interests you, you might also be interested in Pyxel:
https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
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Project mention: Ask HN: Resources for General Purpose GPU development on Apple's M* chips? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-25
People have already mentioned Metal, but if you want cross platform, https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu has a vulkan-like API and cross compiles to all the various GPU frameworks. I believe it uses https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK to run on Macs. You can also see the metal shader transpilation results for debugging.
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glow
GL on Whatever: a set of bindings to run GL anywhere and avoid target-specific code (by grovesNL)
I just opened https://github.com/grovesNL/glow/pull/331 to do exactly that.
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Speedy2D
Rust library for hardware accelerated drawing of 2D shapes, images, and text, with an easy to use API.
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glrnvim
glrnvim wraps nvim with your favourite terminal into a standalone, non-fancy but daily-usable neovim GUI.
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Project mention: Implementing FFmpeg Filters with Rust: A New Approach to Video and Audio Processing | dev.to | 2025-04-09
This is just the start. Explore ez-ffmpeg’s hardware encoding, streaming, or metadata tools. Check out the GitHub repo for more examples and docs.
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sdf-viewer
A fast and cross-platform Signed Distance Function (SDF) viewer, easily integrated with your SDF library.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Rust OpenGL discussion
Rust OpenGL related posts
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Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0
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3 years old PR to Alacritty for Support for graphics remains open
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Faking the tmux experience on Windows using AutoHotkey
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Alacrity to Federated Cryptography
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Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator
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Terminal Latency
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Alacritty: A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator
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Index
What are some of the best open-source OpenGL projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | alacritty | 58,756 |
| 2 | pyxel | 16,263 |
| 3 | wgpu | 14,119 |
| 4 | Azul | 5,997 |
| 5 | gfx | 5,377 |
| 6 | glium | 3,564 |
| 7 | rust-doom | 2,363 |
| 8 | glutin | 2,031 |
| 9 | rust-skia | 1,571 |
| 10 | zemeroth | 1,427 |
| 11 | glow | 1,307 |
| 12 | luminance-rs | 1,100 |
| 13 | learn-opengl-rs | 991 |
| 14 | flux | 801 |
| 15 | gltf | 570 |
| 16 | sulis | 483 |
| 17 | Speedy2D | 399 |
| 18 | glrnvim | 310 |
| 19 | bevy_retro | 304 |
| 20 | ez-ffmpeg | 156 |
| 21 | spirv_cross | 87 |
| 22 | sdf-viewer | 85 |
| 23 | tinyrenderer_rs | 55 |
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