# makepad/makepad

Makepad is a creative software development platform for Rust that compiles to wasm/webGL, osx/metal, windows/dx11 linux/opengl

Repository: https://github.com/makepad/makepad
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/makepad
Homepage: http://makepad.dev/
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T08:43:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2751, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6580, forks 354 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:45.370062+00:00)

## What it is
Makepad is a creative software development platform for Rust that provides a cross-platform UI runtime with a live-editable design DSL, compiling to wasm/WebGL, macOS/Metal, Windows/DX11, and Linux/OpenGL. It integrates AI backends for running LLMs and generative models locally, and includes a studio app, widgets, and examples such as a GPU-accelerated VJ app with audio stem separation and Whisper transcription.

## Use cases
- build cross-platform rust apps that run natively and in the browser
- create gpu-accelerated 2d and 3d ui applications
- make games for quest and desktop with a simple 3d renderer
- embed whisper speech recognition or llm models in local apps
- live-edit ui design with a scriptable dsl and fast iteration loop
- build audio visualizer apps with ai stem separation

## When to choose
- you want a single rust codebase targeting web and native platforms
- you need tight design-to-code iteration with live editing
- you want to run generative AI models locally inside an app

## When to avoid
- you need a mature ecosystem with extensive third-party libraries
- you require standard platform-native widgets and accessibility tooling
- your team is not comfortable with a Rust-first, DSL-based workflow

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework, graphics, game-engine, machine-learning, speech-recognition, audio-processing, animation, templating
- domain: web-development, graphics, cross-platform, artificial-intelligence, desktop-applications, developer-tools
- platform: rust, wasm, windows, cross-platform
- tags: ui-dsl, webgl, metal, dx11, opengl, live-editing, creative-coding, whisper, cuda, vr-quest, game-development, macos, linux, gpu, web-server

## Member repositories
- makepad/makepad (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.370062+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:43:36.540004+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/makepad/makepad (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.370062+00:00, sha 7aa0b668ee91)
  - homepage: http://makepad.dev/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:40:02.574402+00:00, sha 28ec5018c3b2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.