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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.
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.
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?
Yes? I don't know what you expect me to say here, why tf wouldn't learning a better language every now and then fill me with joy? I'm dabbling in side projects all the time and when I switched from React to Svelte I felt elated because it's just so much more comfortable to work with. If your boss is not paying you for your work that's that but nothing stops you from learning new stuff for yourself. I do understand you not wanting to hand your boss your training for free but nobody forces you to do that either, just don't mention that you can use python when asked. That simple.
I feel like we are "mirror images", but not in a predictable way.
Like, you get off on flying through languages having done things in said languages but never fully understanding any language and I get off on not needing a new language until I fully understand the one Im on, but LOVE informing you on the same tripwire you hit in each new language whilst I trip over that same thing in my language. Every. Time.
I dont fancy you wrong, just not correct.
I'd hope you'd fancy me not correct, but also not wrong.