OpenGL crates: gl vs glow vs glium

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  • glium

    Safe OpenGL wrapper for the Rust language.

    https://crates.io/crates/glium (8 months ago - 925 kB)

  • inox2d

    Native Rust reimplementation of Inochi2D

    Hey, I'm working on inox2d which uses glow.

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  • miniquad

    Cross platform rendering in Rust

    You also have Miniquad which is a very cool minimal graphics project. It has almost zero dependencies (only system ones), and compiles under 2 seconds to give you a window with OpenGL on all platforms including mobile very easily. It has a wrapper graphics API but it doesn't try to be modeled after OpenGL at all (after all it might support Metal in the future), so it's gonna be quite different doing your project in it, but it's still the same kind of low level graphics.

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