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sdl2

v0.38.0 Growing

SDL2 bindings for Rust

MIT Edition 2015
API bindingsGame enginesMultimediaRendering #windowing#graphics#api#engine#sdl

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (2.3K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
3.8M
Dependents
2.3K
Releases
98
Size
203KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

422.3K downloads in the last 30 days (14.1K/day), up 68% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

2.3K crates depend on sdl2. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 11+ years old, sdl2 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include orbclient, imageproc, librespot-playback, pistoncore-sdl2_window, bayer. When high-quality crates choose sdl2, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 10/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 19/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
9K/day avg+165%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.35.2
45%
v0.37.0
23%
v0.34.5
12%
v0.32.2
10%
v0.34.3
10%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

gfxttfimagemixerhidapibundleduse-vcpkgstatic-linkuse-bindgenuse-pkgconfigunsafe_texturesuse_ios_frameworkuse_mac_framework

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Maintainers

Dependencies
10
direct dependencies
Dependents
2.3K
crates depend on sdl2

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