Why do people still use VBA?

Re:Why do people still use VBA? by steve1977 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:51AM (#38278016)

And looking at how much work is involved even getting a JavaScript frontend set up, I’m pretty sure the Excel programmers are yet another order of magnitude more productive than the latter.

Which is kinda sad actually.

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Re:Why do people still use VBA? by gold7777 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @11:21AM (#38278416)

I agree. I worked as an analyst where due to security policies we only had VBA. There was application which consisted of an Access DB for a "front end" (containing an interface to input data, generate reports in ppt/excel, etc) which connected to another access database as the "back end" and an admin console to pull in data from a SQL database. I had a lot of fun maintaining it.

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Re:Why do people still use VBA? by steve1977 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @02:26PM (#38281188)

Yeah I know MS Access & Co. have kind of a bad rap, but if I look at what we were able to actually achieve for the business/users with those tools, it’s really painful to see how little progress we have made in the last 20 years or so.

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