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glfw

v0.62.0 Growing

GLFW3 bindings and idiomatic wrapper for Rust.

Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.56
#opengl#windowing#vulkan

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 2d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (1.0K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Team maintained (3 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
838.2K
Dependents
1.0K
Releases
77
Size
132KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

25.5K downloads in the last 30 days (850/day), up 58% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.0K crates depend on glfw. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Team maintained

This crate is maintained by a team (3 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 11+ years old, glfw hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include pistoncore-glfw_window, image2, luminance-glfw, librashader-runtime-gl, gfx_window_glfw. When high-quality crates choose glfw, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 20/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 16/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 16/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
613/day avg+82%
05001K2K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.41.0
39%
v0.59.0
17%
v0.53.0
16%
v0.42.0
15%
v0.23.0
13%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["all", "prebuilt-libs"]

all*x11serdevulkanwaylandsrc-builddynamic-linkprebuilt-libs*native-handlesraw-window-handle-v0-5raw-window-handle-v0-6with-window-handle-v0-5

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
11
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.0K
crates depend on glfw

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