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Heh, muggle world is the niche, but that niche is arguably bigger than all of the dedicated software engineer niches.
by jimbokun 3y ago
Heh, muggle world is the niche, but that niche is arguably bigger than all of the dedicated software engineer niches.
- kitd 3y agoI read a stat somewhere that there are at least an order of magnitude more Excel "programmers" in the world than all pro developers in other languages combined.
- steve1977 3y agoAnd looking at how much work is involved in even just setting up a JavaScript frontend, I’m pretty sure the Excel programmers are yet another order of magnitude more productive than the latter. Which is kinda sad actually.
- gold7777 3y agoI agree. I worked as an analyst where due to security policies we only had VBA. There was application which consisted of an Access DB for a "front end" (containing an interface to input data, generate reports in ppt/excel, etc) which connected to another access database as the "back end" and an admin console to pull in data from a SQL database. I had a lot of fun maintaining it.
- steve1977 3y agoYeah I know MS Access & Co. have kind of a bad rap, but if I look at what we were able to actually achieve for the business/users with those tools, it’s really painful to see how little progress we have made in the last 20 years or so.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoAt that point you're abusing the word niche
- jimbokun 3y agoThus the "Heh".