Rubberduck is not dead

[tvanstiphout]

There is a new blog post here. Apparently, they decided to incorporate in Canada and work the project full-time.
I think that's great.
Seems to me it's not as big of a project as twinBASIC (going on 4 years), but still substantial. Let's see where they are in 18 months.

 

[Richard Rost]

It's exciting to see passion projects like Rubberduck getting full-time attention and proper backing. While it's not quite on the scale of something like twinBASIC, steady progress on community tools is always welcome in the Access and VBA ecosystem.

 

[RonPaii]

It's exciting to see passion projects like Rubberduck getting full-time attention and proper backing. While it's not quite on the scale of something like twinBASIC, steady progress on community tools is always welcome in the Access and VBA ecosystem.

twinBasic looks like a VB6 upgrade, where Rubberduck is VBA. Or am I misreading the intro for those systems?

 

[The_Doc_Man]

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[NauticalGent]

The song that came to mind for me was "Convoy"...

 

[NauticalGent]

I've always thought RubberDuck and MZTools provided the same service, is this not the case?

 

[tvanstiphout]

I've always thought RubberDuck and MZTools provided the same service, is this not the case?

I asked an AI: "To a Microsoft Access developer, what are the main differences between MzTools and RubberDuck?"
It gave a lengthy reply, which you can read here.

In summary: Both tools improve the VBA development experience, but they come from very different philosophies. MzTools is a productivity add‑in. Rubberduck is a static‑analysis and refactoring engine that happens to live inside the VBA editor.

 

[NauticalGent]

twinBasic looks like a VB6 upgrade, where Rubberduck is VBA. Or am I misreading the intro for those systems?

From Mike Wolfe's ( @NoLongerSet ) website:

"On April 23, 2021, I helped Wayne Phillips introduce the world to twinBASIC at the Access DevCon Vienna conference. I boldly predicted that twinBASIC (along with the Monaco editor) would replace VBA and its outdated development environment by 2025."

 

[RonPaii]

From Mike Wolfe's ( @NoLongerSet ) website:

"On April 23, 2021, I helped Wayne Phillips introduce the world to twinBASIC at the Access DevCon Vienna conference. I boldly predicted that twinBASIC (along with the Monaco editor) would replace VBA and its outdated development environment by 2025."

I did a little more research, twinBASIC extends and replaces VB6 and VBA compiling to executable. The dll can be used by Access but does NOT replace Access VBA. RubberDuck does not extend or replace VBA only the editor, running as an add-on to Access.

 

[sonic8]

The dll can be used by Access but does NOT replace Access VBA.

Not yet.
It might in the future. Let's hope this will work out.

 

[isladogs]

I asked CoPilot to extend Tom's comparison by also including the VBE_Extras Office add-in which I now use the most of all three tools

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[tvanstiphout]

I asked CoPilot to extend Tom's comparison by also including the VBE_Extras Office add-in which I now use the most of all three tools

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This link opens generic page for me, not specific comparison text. I found my link at the bottom of the chat.

 

[KitaYama]

I have a background in PHP web programming and used high-end editors like Zend Studio with many built-in features.
When I first started using Excel VBA and later Access VBA, the lack of those features was a real pain.
A friend suggested trying different utilities to see if any of them could cover at least part of what I needed.
After a long search, the remaining candidates were Rubberduck and MZ-Tools.
I didn’t hesitate to buy MZ-Tools because I really didn’t like either the name or the yellow duck icon of Rubberduck. To me, it felt a bit childish for a programming tool.
After years of using MZ_Tools, I never thought I need to test anything else, But after reading these comments, something tells me I should give Rubberduck a chance.

Thanks for the persuasion.