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I hope they kill off VBA too. I still see some teams in banks implementing Monte Carlo simulators or PDE solvers in straight VBA ๐คข
I have seen critical enterprise applications run in VBA in excel. Removing VBA would cause global economic ruin. I'm pretty sure that's the unspoken backstory for the Fallout series.
Well it's gotta be done some time... otherwise we end up with another version of COBOL.
Or how about this... we use what works and stop throwing the world into chaos every 4 years so Microsoft can sell their next 50k/year enterprise application.