[b0rsuk]

Obviously I'm not going to name my past employers or even hint by saying what industry it was. But people are skilled in presenting the next software trend as a cure-all. Agile, micro-services etc can be used as just distractions to avoid doing anything serious about present problems.

[pdimitar]

Yes and no. A lot such things are fads indeed but as you yourself noted, Rust gives you a lot of runtime stability just by the mere fact that the program has compiled.

There are some cure-almost-alls. Most are fashion. Sadly it's how it is in software and it doesn't seem like it's ever going to change.