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Yes. Python is a LOT more powerful. Requires a LOT technical knowledge to operate.

Are you making north of 150k to make your strife worth it?

Or are you raising the technical bar while also lowering the compensation bar?

Myself, I make 60k and my VBA gets the job done. Zero incentive to get into the minutia you just explained. My shit works. And I'm not set on fucking up the bell curve for everyone.

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neshura@bookwormstory.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
bruv Python is so simple you barely need to know English to use it. Haven’t used VBA but I’ll just blindly guess it’s more difficult because honestly I have not seen a language that is easier to pick up than Python.

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- Melkath@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Well, if VBA disappears, Python is what I'll need to learn.
  
  If I don't need to learn a new language tho, I'd prefer that.
  
  Honestly, 95% of my vba is just nested do until loops.
  
  The remaining 5% is ODBC connections and BCP shell commands.
  
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  - neshura@bookwormstory.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    If I don’t need to learn a new language tho, I’d prefer that.
    
    Not trying to hate on you but this sort of take is really bad. I understand if you dislike programming and are forced to do it for your job but otherwise learning a new thing occasionally is a good thing. In case programming is a key part of your job it’s like a carpenter saying “I prefer hand sawing everything but if they discontinue them I’ll be forced to use a table saw”. But again, if you are forced to program at work despite not liking it that changes things.
    
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    Melkath@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I challenge your read.
    
    I love programming. I'd love to expand my knowledge.
    
    I am 5 years deep on "you hired an analyst and then demanded a developer/architect/salesman, and the payrate didn't follow. I am still making creative ramen dishes from my rental when I should have a house, and I should get a yearly vacation."
    
    My CEO gets 30% gains yearly... and he is the only person at my company that enjoys that.
    
    Basically I am striking. Like the rest of the world.
    
    Cool you are making a fair wage and aren't scabbing on your peers. Because a love for leaving behind what works to make something in a different language that also works fills your soul with joy?
    
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- TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I learned some VB.net in college and it probably depends on what you are trying to do with it, but it’s simpler than Python, I would say. It is an event driven language, and you handle everything at a very high level. It was the first language taught in my CS studies in the mid to late 2000s for that reason.
  
  That being said, Python is very nice and intuitive to learn and work with as well. It’s just a much deeper rabbithole than VB.
  
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driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Python is way easy lo learn that VBA imo, and is way more useful.

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AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I don’t know what your seniority is, but it’s cool if it works for you. However, to remain employable in case you someday get laid off (of course not wishing you that), it would be beneficial to have experience in a more modern language. To remain fixated on one single language/tech just because it works for you for now is going to cause you lots of pain in case you need to hit the job market again someday and it would be too late to learn new languages because, depending on your seniority again, recruiters won’t want someone who just began learning the language.

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