linebender/piet

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1370 stars · 98 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Piet is a Rust crate providing a cross-platform abstraction for 2D graphics, with backends that implement the API on top of each platform's built-in 2D rendering system (Cairo, CoreGraphics, Direct2D). It serves as the drawing layer for the Druid GUI toolkit.

Use cases

• draw 2D graphics with the same code on multiple platforms
• render shapes, text, and bezier paths in a Rust GUI app
• avoid bundling a full 2D renderer by using platform-native drawing APIs
• build a cross-platform Rust GUI toolkit's rendering layer
• render vector graphics to images in Rust

When to choose

• you need portable 2D drawing code across macOS, Windows, and Linux in Rust
• you are building on Druid or the Linebender ecosystem
• you want thin wrappers over native platform graphics rather than a GPU renderer

When to avoid

• you need GPU-accelerated rendering or modern features like shaders
• you need a project under active feature development (it is in maintenance mode)
• you need 3D graphics

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

graphics graphics cross-platform web-development rust cross-platform windows 2d-graphics drawing-api cairo direct2d coregraphics druid macos linux

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