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Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by mhh__ on Friday December 29, 2023 @02:04AM (#38802408)
Never really got why Microsoft didn't keep going with that kind of thing. Why don't we have .net properly inside excel instead of VBA?

Money? Internal elitism?

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Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by tomatocracy on Friday December 29, 2023 @03:51AM (#38802950)
VBA can't really be removed due to the need to support legacy files (especially Excel). For more sophisticated stuff they expect you to use Office Developer Tools or similar now.
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Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by akho on Friday December 29, 2023 @02:46AM (#38802593)
Office Developer Tools exist.

They're trying to steer people away from end-user programming towards using more well-defined, tested, features. I find it patronizing, but, having seen some VBA, understand the reasoning.

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Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by TeMPOraL on Friday December 29, 2023 @05:43AM (#38803654)
Sekhurity.

Can't have user-programmable tools, because they could be used to ship (gasp!) malware, or let users (GASP!) work around policies of their employers' IT staff.

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