[pjmlp]

Some companies I did consulting for, the data scientists would rather use a mix of Excel, Tableau, VBA and VB.NET.

So neither Python not Julia.

[tharne]

Excel has proved itself shockingly resilient. We all make fun of it, but man, with smaller data sets it gets the job done.

A lot of people would be horrified to see how many business critical processes depend on a bunch of hacked together excel workbooks.

[galangalalgol]

I get the first 3, they are surprisingly powerful for data. But why VB.NET? Its many times alower than VBA.

[pjmlp]

Since when is a compiled language with JIT/AOT toolchain slower than an interpreter?

They reach for VB.NET when there is nothing left for VBA.