Radar · Rust · Archive · Week 16 · Apr 14 – 20, 2025

wgpu crate of the week

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What changed: The wgpu crate, a cross‑platform graphics and compute library based on WebGPU, was highlighted as this week’s crate of the week.
Production impact: The source does not say.
Try it: Add wgpu = "0.20" to a Cargo.toml and build a minimal example that creates an instance.
Source: this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/04/16/this-week-in-rust-595/

Understand it, then run it

This week’s crate of the week is wgpu. It is a graphics and compute library that works across many platforms and is built on the WebGPU standard. The announcement simply highlights the crate; no code changes are introduced.

Run it now

Todayrust

// This program demonstrates the crate of the week announcement.
// It does not depend on the wgpu crate, which is not part of the standard library.
fn main() {
    // Print the crate name and a brief description.
    println!("Crate of the week: wgpu");
    println!("A cross‑platform graphics and compute library based on WebGPU.");
}

What it printed when we ran it on Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024)

Crate of the week: wgpu
A cross‑platform graphics and compute library based on WebGPU.

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