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When using VBA and Excel, I've found it easiest to just stick to XML for my REST calls and not try to deal with JSON. Talk about adding features to JSON to make it richer just makes me think everything goes around in circles.

What I'd like to see is an LLVM back-end that generates VBA, but I may never get around to it myself.

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Everything goes around in circles because we hit walls and obstacles, work around them and move on. Then at a later date, when we hit new walls and obstacles, we re-visit old areas, many times to find that they are no longer problems (faster hardware, more network capacity, algorithmic breakthroughs), and so the industry half-pivots in a new direction.

Everything old is new again. Wash, rinse, repeat.

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