Rust Shaders

Open-source Rust projects categorized as Shaders

Top 15 Rust Shader Projects

  1. rust-gpu

    🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧

    Project mention: Gpu.cpp: A lightweight library for portable low-level GPU computation | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-12
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  3. rust-gpu

    🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧 (by Rust-GPU)

    Project mention: Exo: Exocompilation for productive programming of hardware accelerators | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-14
  4. luminance-rs

    Type-safe, type-level and stateless Rust graphics framework

  5. compute-shader-101

    Sample code for compute shader 101 training

  6. strolle

    Experimental real-time renderer with support for dynamic global illumination

  7. shame

    A shader EDSL for writing render and compute pipelines in rust

  8. rusty_art

    Creative coding and visual illusions in Rust.

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. bevy_smud

    Sdf 2d shape renderer for Bevy

  11. pilka

    Another live-coding tool for creating shader demos, Vulkan+Wgpu powered.

  12. wrend

    A framework-agnostic Rust/WASM + WebGL2 Rendering library, compatible with calling from both Rust and JavaScript on the web.

  13. sdf-viewer

    A fast and cross-platform Signed Distance Function (SDF) viewer, easily integrated with your SDF library.

  14. shadertoy-rs

    A desktop client for Shadertoy written in Rust

  15. rusterizer

    Bare-bones software renderer written in Rust

  16. compaster

    Rasterization using compute shaders

  17. sdf-playground

    Signed distance functions + Rust (CPU & GPU) = ❤️❤️

  18. SaaSHub

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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).

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  • Exo: Exocompilation for productive programming of hardware accelerators

    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2025
  • Gpu.cpp: A lightweight library for portable low-level GPU computation

    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2024
  • What's the coolest Rust project you've seen that made you go, 'Wow, I didn't know Rust could do that!'?

    5 projects | /r/rust | 3 Jul 2023
  • How a Nerdsnipe Led to a Fast Implementation of Game of Life

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  • [rust-gpu] How do I run/build my own shaders locally?

    3 projects | /r/rust | 6 Jun 2023
  • Posh: Type-Safe Graphics Programming in Rust

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jun 2023
  • Introducing posh: Type-Safe Graphics Programming in Rust

    6 projects | /r/rust | 4 Jun 2023
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Shader projects in Rust? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 rust-gpu 7,435
2 rust-gpu 1,494
3 luminance-rs 1,100
4 compute-shader-101 564
5 strolle 417
6 shame 263
7 rusty_art 189
8 bevy_smud 147
9 pilka 132
10 wrend 127
11 sdf-viewer 84
12 shadertoy-rs 70
13 rusterizer 44
14 compaster 21
15 sdf-playground 16

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