This is in the sense of largest number of end users
millions use TiKV (adopters), a distributed transactional key-value database.
Here are some numbers for some of those adopters:
- over 200m users (late 2020)
- over 220m users (mid 2019)
- over 300m users (mid 2019)
This is, for me, the most impressive Rust success story.
over 700m people use Dropbox (late 2022), whose file storage system is written in Rust.
over 200m people use Firefox (late 2022), which has various components written in Rust, most notably Stylo, which does CSS style calculation.
250m people use Discord (early 2020), which has Read States service written in Rust, whose "sole purpose is to keep track of which channels and messages you have read".
100s of millions use Android 11+, whose DNS-over-HTTP/3 service is written in Rust. A number of other components are written using the language, especially starting with Android 13.