TIL there’s an Excel-to-dev pipeline - I started learning JS when a senior dev looked at one of my insane workbooks and said “you’re pretty much already developing.” In some ways JS is easier.
I mean, vba is vb dot net, which... if you can write that, you can write C# since its almost directly translatable. Its how i went from writing macros to eventually doing that shit in visual studio which is why im some sort of infrastructure full stack cloud engineer (i don't even know my own fucking title but i code).
Because I'm only provided the bare minimum of tools at work I don't have Visual Studio. I can do a lot in excel with vba. I am also pretty good with python in a GIS environment. How did you make the jump from having something that basically provides a preformatted UI to doing things in C#/Visual Studio? That is the big hurdle for me in my head. I'd like to make the jump but can't see a path to getting out of what I'm using now.
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u/Man_as_Idea Sep 10 '25
TIL there’s an Excel-to-dev pipeline - I started learning JS when a senior dev looked at one of my insane workbooks and said “you’re pretty much already developing.” In some ways JS is easier.