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Re:The Rust compiler has gotten faster again by pjmlp on Friday November 12, 2021 @02:38AM (#29197142)
Despite its bashing around here, plenty of MS shops do keep using VB, even for new projects.
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Re:The Rust compiler has gotten faster again by jacquesm on Friday November 12, 2021 @03:29AM (#29197332)
As does everybody working at a slightly deeper level with Excel and that alone probably puts it near the top of PL usage.
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Re:The Rust compiler has gotten faster again by pjmlp on Friday November 12, 2021 @04:14AM (#29197517)
As I worked on a couple of projects in life sciences, the migration path to VB was those users that wanted to grow beyond VBA so they would eventually adopt VB + WinForms for data processing, they didn't even care for R or Python, Excel and Tableau were they main tools.
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