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0 pointsIdidntdothis6y ago0 comments

Can JavaScript use COM libraries and windows APIs? The JavaScript ecosystem is big but I doubt it covers much of what a typical VBA application needs. I think C# or another .Net language would be more suitable.

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rosybox6y ago

If there isn't now, I imagine it will come. There's:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/windows-runt...

I'm sure Microsoft is probably at least considering making JavaScript work well with existing Windows APIs.

ptx6y ago

I think that's deprecated. They dropped support for UWP apps with JavaScript in Visual Studio 2019:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ebb5e04b-d00a...

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