# gfx-rs/wgpu

> A cross-platform, safe, pure-Rust graphics API implementing the WebGPU standard and running on Vulkan, Metal, D3D12, OpenGL, WebGL2 and WebGPU. It powers graphics in Firefox, Servo, and Deno.

- Magnitude: 1.4 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 18,117 total · +1 star on 2026-09-25 (UTC), ≈ 5 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2018-09-13 · Last push: 2026-09-25
- GitHub: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu · Homepage: https://wgpu.rs · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/gfx-rs/wgpu

## Useful for

- Write a renderer or game in Rust with a single API for Windows, Linux, macOS and WebAssembly
- Run the wgpu examples via cargo run --bin wgpu-examples to learn the graphics pipeline
- Use wgpu-native C bindings to work with WebGPU from C, C++ or other languages

## Why it’s here

- 1 star so far today, about 5 expected by the end of the day.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,462
- Issues and pull requests: 9,968
- Watchers: 117
- Average over the last week: 8 per day
- Usual pace: 11 per day
- Latest release: v30.0.1 (2026-08-22)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 13 days

09-13 1.9, 09-14 2.4, 09-15 3.0, 09-16 1.7, 09-17 1.2, 09-18 1.5, 09-19 1.0, 09-20 1.3, 09-21 1.3, 09-22 1.2, 09-23 1.5, 09-24 1.6, 09-25 1.4

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-25 10:07 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.