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It has enormous value, based on technical debt. Tons of legacy business processes rely on crusty old VBA living in microsoft office documents.
by idiotsecant 4y ago
It has enormous value, based on technical debt. Tons of legacy business processes rely on crusty old VBA living in microsoft office documents.
- can16358p 4y agoI think they should stay but run within a very hard virtual sandboxed environment totally separate from user's system. That might be the sweet spot. Still not 100% secure and there might be some attack vectors but better than what we have now.
- voakbasda 4y agoCars once relied on fuel containing lead, which had indisputable value for those mechanical systems. Once external factors were understood and considered, it was banned through regulation, despite the value that it provided. Keeping this technology around has external costs to our entire computing ecosystem that outweigh the benefits.
- albatross13 4y agoIt is hilarious to me that: 1. I've never thought about this concept 2. I've never been exposed to it This world is absolutely wild. To be clear- I fully believe you, I've just never worked at a place where we relied on VBA in a word doc lol