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Chucklefish, the developer of Starbound, uses Rust too. The lead dev on the project gave a great presentation [1] at RustConf.

[1] https://youtu.be/aKLntZcp27M

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I'm aware of Chucklefish's usage of Rust, but they aren't a good AAA example even if they've shipped some of the most successful indie titles of all time. Also, as mentioned in a sibling comment they have abandoned Rust because the lead programmer that was driving it moved on.

(They did but have since stopped.)

Do you have any articles or any info on why they decided to stop using Rust? I remember seeing things about them using Rust but never saw anything about them not using it and I'm curious.

They made a few offhand comments on Reddit, but that's it.

They decided that having a unified tech stack for the games themselves was worth more than Rust's advantages. Basically, they decided to re-build Witchbrook on top of Wargroove's engine.

That being said, I guess I should have put an asterisk on there; they aren't using Rust in game anymore, but they are still (apparently, last we heard) using Rust for server-side components. Wargroove's servers are implemented in Rust.

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