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glium vs speedy2d vs miniquad
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.
Cross-platform window context and rendering library.
Core Metrics
| glium | speedy2d | miniquad | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 60 | 61 | 59 |
| Total Downloads | 2.9M | 104.2K | 1.8M |
| 30d Downloads | 35.3K | 1.0K | 54.6K |
| Dependents | 1.6K | 19 | 290 |
| Releases | 98 | 27 | 141 |
| Last Updated | 640d ago | 30d ago | 40d ago |
| Age | 11y 8m | 5y 4m | 6y 6m |
Health Breakdown
Technical Details
| glium | speedy2d | miniquad | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.36.0 | 3.1.0 | 0.4.11 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✗ No |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 20 | 19 | 8 |
| Crate Size | 956KB | 904KB | 207KB |
| Features | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.8% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2018 | 2018 |
| MSRV | — | — | 1.70 |
| Owners | 2 (team) | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •speedy2d leads with a health score of 61/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •glium has the most downloads (2.9M), suggesting wider adoption.
- •glium is depended on by 1.6K crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •⚠ glium has not been updated in over a year.
- •glium, miniquad are pre-1.0 — API may change.