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[โ€“] [email protected] 67 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (57 children)

I hope they kill off VBA too. I still see some teams in banks implementing Monte Carlo simulators or PDE solvers in straight VBA ๐Ÿคข

[โ€“] [email protected] 112 points 10 months ago (40 children)

I have seen critical enterprise applications run in VBA in excel. Removing VBA would cause global economic ruin. I'm pretty sure that's the unspoken backstory for the Fallout series.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Enterprise will cause a boom in hiring VBA devs to migrate legacy apps to other programming languages, then hear Microsoft will extend support for a few more years, then fire all those VBA devs again. If Microsoft had some wits, they'd create easy tools to migrate VBA to C#.

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