8 engineers on Hacker News describe using VBA first-hand: 3 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I wrote a document management system in VBA for Word for a law firm I worked for in the late 1990s... it was a valuable stopgap for something we desperately needed.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · themadturk · 2024-05-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I probably owe my entire career to it and VBA.”
endorse · personal · mdeeks · 2023-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I began my software development career using Microsoft technologies such as .NET and VBA... Eventually I released myself from "Microsoft prison"”
regret · production · tarruda · 2020-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had to touch a few VBA/Excel based "applications" over the last year or two... It was no fun at all”
regret · production · 2 yr · krylon · 2015-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“EVERY SINGLE FUNCTION in that application began with the line "On Error Resume Next".”
mixed · production · fooqux · 2013-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I devoted about three months to write an Excel VBA tool to help automate the creation of components for the EDA package”
endorse · production · robomartin · 2013-01-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the legacy VBA code from 2004 it has to integrate with, but it pretty much picks up on every little detail”
neutral · production · ewoodrich · 2025-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For our finance people, vba and dynamics GP integration is a requirement.”
neutral · production · smogcutter · 2018-03-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?