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by TimTheTinker 951 days ago
Someone needs to build a wasm interpreter in VBA.

Then we can write programs in Go/Rust/etc and run them in office or wherever.

VBA is to corporate environments what JavaScript is to the web.

2 comments

Honestly, this is something I've been wanting to do for a while... Last I looked though, I couldn't find many good resources on how WASI (or the byte code) worked... And VBA being single threaded might make things difficult too...

I have already built my own code interpreter in VBA to make Lambda syntax possible: https://github.com/sancarn/stdVBA/blob/master/src/stdLambda.... so I know it's definitely possible, just haven't figured out WASM yet...

VBA can call executables, but I can see some places locking things down such that that would not fly.