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by unnouinceput
2309 days ago
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Quote: "What Will Replace VBA? Short answer: JavaScript. "; and author follows with some logic about JS vs VBA using cross-platform. Except this will never happen: 1 - M$ loves backward compatibility. It's what keeps their software being sold all these times. Worse case JS will have bigger user share and that's it, but M$ will never cut VBA out. 2 - Also majority of business is done on Windows. Cross-platform means absolutely nothing to corporations. The day that Windows dies that's the day VBA will die as well. 3 - JS as golden boy vs VBA? pleease. Best case scenario you're switching from one ugly boy to another ugly boy. Both VBA and JS are horrors. Don't believe me? Go read'em horror stories about JS cross browsers implementations. JS solved the problem of cross-platform only to open the problem of cross browsers. Good luck having Apple implement the same JS in Safari as their mortal enemy from Google in Chrome. |
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2) Yes, but it is changing thanks in part to dotNet core understanding this too. So we should see some benefits across the board for everyone.
3) Well, like PHP back when it was the golden boy against Perl, it's up to the developers to decide the direction of the language itself. Browsers and Node are big players to influence that too, but M$'s interest bringing TypeScript for example is evidence they might believe that.. Also as for standards, I might be wrong but I think they now decide their own standards, with all the browsers as members ?