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by amichal 924 days ago
I dont know about open source. But back back around 2000 it was fairly common to implement a "VBA host". It was also easy, a few dev days to scaffold and minutes to hours of dev time to expose functions. We did it with a suite of related applications (used internally by a early ebook punlisher) that interacted a lot with Office. Introspection, auto-complete and integrated help documentation all worked and technically minded editor staff could automate lots of thier work with Visual Studio provided IDE and debuggers etc