▲ 316 ▼ Stack Overflow Survey: 80% of developers are unhappy (shiftmag.dev) submitted 2 years ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev 80 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) was told we'd do it in excel/vba instead, still unhappy. I just threw up in my mouth a little. Fifteen years ago, "I'll stick to Excel" was a (bad, but) defensible position in data automation. Today that's just insanity. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I'm still in a mechanical engineering world so just saying INT and FLOAT has people running away. Excel is the "safe zone" for them, sadly it means that I'll just be doing the VBA part and oh gawd please get me out of here... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* Yeah. I get that. Gotta do what you gotta do! I've made some progress at organizations like that by setting up a private workflow in Python "just to check my work". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I'm still in a mechanical engineering world so just saying INT and FLOAT has people running away. Excel is the "safe zone" for them, sadly it means that I'll just be doing the VBA part and oh gawd please get me out of here... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* Yeah. I get that. Gotta do what you gotta do! I've made some progress at organizations like that by setting up a private workflow in Python "just to check my work". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* Yeah. I get that. Gotta do what you gotta do! I've made some progress at organizations like that by setting up a private workflow in Python "just to check my work". permalink fedilink source parent