rust-skia/rust-skia

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1813 stars · 196 forks observed · 2026-09-27

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

Safe Rust bindings for Google's Skia 2D graphics library, providing idiomatic Rust access to Skia's C++ API. It supports GPU rendering backends including Vulkan, Metal, OpenGL, and Direct3D across desktop and mobile platforms.

Use cases

• render 2D graphics in Rust
• draw text and shapes with Skia from Rust
• render to a GPU-backed window in Rust
• generate PDFs or SVGs from Rust code
• build a custom UI rendering engine in Rust
• cross-platform 2D drawing on mobile and desktop

When to choose

• you need Skia's high-quality 2D rendering from Rust
• you want GPU-accelerated drawing via Vulkan, Metal, OpenGL, or Direct3D
• you need PDF or SVG output from Rust
• you want safe, idiomatic Rust APIs over a mature C++ graphics library

When to avoid

• you need a simple pure-Rust 2D library without heavy C++ build dependencies
• your project cannot tolerate long Skia compile times or prebuilt binary downloads
• you need 3D rendering rather than 2D graphics

Facets

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graphics image-processing pdf ui-components graphics cross-platform developer-tools rust cross-platform windows skia 2d-graphics rendering gpu-rendering vulkan metal opengl direct3d svg safe-bindings drawing linux macos android ios gpu

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