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by jmnicolas 3157 days ago
I could see myself using VBA more if the "IDE" was not a 20yo piece of crap that pops a MessageBox every time you have an error (I seem to always forget to add the "then" when writing an "if").

Just underline the error but let me continue to code dammit.

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Not to defend VBA or its IDE, but you can turn that off. https://stackoverflow.com/a/11561968/2258
You just changed my life !
I don't mind VBA in its native habitat, I just usually don't like its native habitat.

There are several languages on this list like that. I wonder if C# for example has that as a factor.

That has to be why C# is ranked below Java. I don't understand a world in which people would prefer Java, the language, over C#, the language, all else being equal.

Working with C# likely means working in an MS-centric environment which is probably what this is measuring more.

I'm a C# dev since 2009, so I probably can't answer you objectively ;-)