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VBA Standard Library - A Collection of libraries to form a common standard layer for modern VBA applications.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2023-11-14 · latest 2023-11-16

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  1. I do RPA from VBA personally using IAccessiblity. See stdAcc ( https://github.com/sancarn/stdVBA/blob/master/src/stdAcc.cls ) and an example ( https://github.com/sancarn/stdVBA-examples/tree/main/Example... ). You are basically doing the…
    comment by sancarn · 2023-11-16 · in Why do people still use VBA?
  2. I have invested copious amounts of time into building VBA libraries ( https://github.com/sancarn/stdVBA ) and as much as I love vba there are some highly limiting actual problems with VBA ( https://sancarn.github.io/vba-articles/issues-with…
    comment by sancarn · 2023-11-16 · in Why do people still use VBA?
  3. …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...
    comment by sancarn · 2023-11-16 · in Why do people still use VBA?
  4. …who know and understand the core systems, the better. Edit: for what it's worth, I do use github ( https://github.com/sancarn/stdVBA ), but you won't see nearly any versions of any corporate codebases, why? Git doesn't work great with VBA…
    comment by sancarn · 2023-11-16 · in Why do people still use VBA?
  5. Is that really needed? You can use VBA to do all the heavy lifting. That's what we do here: https://github.com/sancarn/stdVBA/blob/master/src/stdLambda....
  6. I have an open source compiler-interpreter for VBA here: https://github.com/sancarn/stdVBA/blob/master/src/stdLambda.... In case you were interested :P (I say compiler, it compiled to byte code, not asm.)