[hypermachine]

Their biggest mistake was not scaling the VBA/Excel/Access stack beyond desktop and updating it. Where is the WinUI integration for VBA? The product and language was fine but it has been abandoned by Microsoft. It is easy to learn and use but they never tried to make it a cross platform technology.

[Closi]

I don’t think that’s a mistake - VBA in the browser sounds like an awful technology that I want nothing to do with!

Also most VBA code already written is inherently locked into the windows API and COM framework so isn’t multi-platform by design. Code written in VBA on Excel for Windows often doesn’t port across to Mac without errors because there is little abstraction from the host OS. That’s why the replacement technology is a cross-platform JavaScript API for Excel (that will eventually allow fully cross platform macros).

It does have WinUI integration via winforms, but again porting winforms to mobile and web would be a huge technical challenge and be very ugly (or break compatibility).

[PaulWaldman]

VBA in the browser? This sounds like old school ASP using vb script!

[hypermachine]

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