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by thekingofravens 1962 days ago
I love the VS wrapper shoutout. It reminds me of VBA, which can do the same exact things inside excel sheets. I remember working at amazon there were a lot of programs where the entire software was hidden behind an excel sheet using this mechanic. It would literally just be a small Visual Basic wrapper that runs compiled code. It was literally because your end user wouldn't trust software you write unless it was either a web app or an excel sheet. So if it had to interact with excel sheets, why not shove it inside one?