XLIDE: VBA without excel
sts153
63 points
25 comments
May 27, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
leshenka
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.
_boffin_
Gonna have some fun with this!
stymaar
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.
nickstinemates
Also known as: downside without the upside.
bigfishrunning
What i don't get is...why? why not just use VB.net (or some other tool)