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I think it's often easy to underestimate just how much VBA-type code has been written around the MS Office suite of applications since the late 90s. It's a mas

I think it's often easy to underestimate just how much VBA-type code has been written around the MS Office suite of applications since the late 90s. It's a massive amount of department-level (or higher), home-grown code that leverages the MS Office functionality in lieu of paying professional software developers to develop something more streamlined, but much more expensive.

ethbro 8y ago
Dealing with that is a big part of my day to day. ;) My point being that for everything but performance critical use cases, generic UI automation works well. So was trying to think of situations where 1) performance requirements were higher than UI automation could deliver & 2) performance requirements are low enough that it doesn't make more sense to rewrite the code in a more appropriate system.