I don't know if this is what you mean, but Aspect Oriented Programming was a hot topic for a very short period in the early 2000's, especially in the enterprise

I don't know if this is what you mean, but Aspect Oriented Programming was a hot topic for a very short period in the early 2000's, especially in the enterprise Java community. Ultimately it didn't seem to find many use cases and the buzz died down pretty quick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AspectJ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AspectJ