Honestly? I do the job that's in front of me. That has included everything from pre-STL C++, to 90s-era PHP and even Visual Basic for Applications. And a few th

Honestly? I do the job that's in front of me. That has included everything from pre-STL C++, to 90s-era PHP and even Visual Basic for Applications. And a few things even more obscure than that. I do sympathize with agency's situation—I have actually put Rust into production and been responsible for mentoring programmers to work on it. I like Rust! But I almost certainly wouldn't have chosen Rust for a government production system without making sure that all the stakeholders understood the tradeoffs. Although, it sounds like this was an abandoned R&D prototype that was voluntarily picked up by another team, so I don't necessarily blame anyone involved here.