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XLIDE: VBA without excel

48 pointsby sts153today at 12:08 PM13 commentsview on HN

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stymaartoday at 2:30 PM

Very cool in theory. Unfortunately it's just 12klocs of a vibe-coded week-end project.

Edit: it's actually 50klocs since the pyOpenVBA dependency is from the same author and has been made the week-end before.

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leshenkatoday at 2:00 PM

Wonder how extensively VBA is used in today's Excel. I know that macros are considered dangerous but would love to know if there are exceptions for that rule.

On the other hand I wonder why aren't they run in such a sandbox where the most destructive action they can do is to wipe the sheets.

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_boffin_today at 2:19 PM

Gonna have some fun with this!