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As a developer, when I worked in VBA it was just way more rewarding and appreciated. I was way happier with the work I was doing and having a much bigger (and m
by dccoolgai 4y ago
As a developer, when I worked in VBA it was just way more rewarding and appreciated. I was way happier with the work I was doing and having a much bigger (and more visible) impact... Sadly I got paid roughly 1/4 of what I get paid now to muck around in package.json files all day. I know it's not fashionable to say,but yeah I feel like Excel is underrated and scoffed at by the "serious tech" community when it should be lauded as an example to strive towards.
- EddySchauHai 4y agoIt's actually pretty technically awesome too. When I was studying for an MSc in CS I focused on program synthesis and one of the key papers of applied program synthesis is Flashfill in Excel (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/popl11-synthesis.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...). It might seem boring but there's a lot of really cool stuff in the backend of it!