Decision Workspace
glium vs speedy2d vs egui_sdl2_gl
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
Elegant and safe OpenGL wrapper. Glium is an intermediate layer between OpenGL and your application. You still need to manually handle the graphics pipeline, but without having to use OpenGL's old and error-prone API. Its objectives: - Be safe to use. Many aspects of OpenGL that can trigger a crash if misused are automatically handled by glium. - Provide an API that enforces good pratices such as RAII or stateless function calls. - Be compatible with all OpenGL versions that support shaders, providing unified API when things diverge. - Avoid all OpenGL errors beforehand. - Produce optimized OpenGL function calls, and allow the user to easily use modern OpenGL techniques.
Hardware-accelerated drawing of shapes, images, and text, with an easy to use API. Speedy2D aims to be the simplest Rust API for creating a window, rendering graphics, and handling input.
Backend for Egui to use with sdl2-rs and open gl
Core Metrics
| glium | speedy2d | egui_sdl2_gl | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 61 | 57 | 54 |
| Total Downloads | 2.7M | 97.5K | 43.7K |
| 30d Downloads | 48.6K | 2.0K | 503 |
| Dependents | 1.5K | 18 | 1 |
| Releases | 98 | 26 | 30 |
| Last Updated | 532d ago | 89d ago | 76d ago |
| Age | 11y 4m | 5y | 5y 4m |
Health Breakdown
Technical Details
| glium | speedy2d | egui_sdl2_gl | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.36.0 | 3.0.0 | 0.33.2 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✗ No |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Dependencies | 20 | 19 | 7 |
| Crate Size | 956KB | 902KB | 26KB |
| Features | 5 | 3 | 13 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2018 | 2018 |
| MSRV | — | — | — |
| Owners | 2 (team) | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •glium leads with a health score of 61/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •glium is depended on by 1.5K crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •⚠ glium has not been updated in over a year.
- •glium, egui_sdl2_gl are pre-1.0 — API may change.