[bluedino]

Our company runs on a pile of VBA/Access. At least it talks to a MariadDB server on Linux.

The biggest problems are trying to run/develop this code on machines that were made in the last ten years, the other is that it's a horrible, horrible codebase. Code practices from the early 90's.

To make things worse, objects are 'evil', all HTML/SQL/XML is built by appending strings, there's no data sanity checks.....

I started a proof of concept replacement system that was written in Python and ran on the web.

It was met with "We can go with a web based system, since if anything changes in the browser we'll be up shit creek."

:-/

[viraptor]

Ah... The fine line between "better the devil you know" and "I don't understand the options so every change is too scary".