# The Wisdom of No Escape **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask the Community\ **Created:** [June 25, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/the-wisdom-of-no-escape/16881 "2020-06-25T12:45:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Paul\_Danyliuk](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/paul_danyliuk/32/27228_2.png) [@Paul\_Danyliuk](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Paul_Danyliuk)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 10:06pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/the-wisdom-of-no-escape/16881/21 "2021-05-26T22:06:00Z")
> [@Peter\_Wills](#): > > I have seen almost full blown accounting applications designed in Excel and whilst this may be possible to some extent in Coda, Notion, Airtable and the like, again, I defy anyone to produce results comparable to what can be achieved using Excel. Reading this I almost gave into the urge to make a bet 😆 Of course there are things that you can do on Excel that you cannot do on Coda, such as: - connect to Windows API (COM objects) through VBA - play MIDI files - interact with your filesystem, devices, drivers - make a 3D shooter game on it (although I [tried](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/doom-on-coda/22553) lol) - manipulate doc schema (that’s a real bummer yeah; one of the reasons why I didn’t gave in. Although in many cases one could work around that with some smart schema design) You have to do these with VBA though, which is an _un-nice_ language to learn. Or hire $200+/hr consultants to code those for you without a slightest chance of you being able to maintain it yourself ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯ (it would be fair to say here that I’m myself a $200+/hr consultant on Coda, albeit I share [a lot](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRqWQ9Eg5HpdIxWhvznCPcQ/videos) openly, and [some more](https://www.patreon.com/codatricks) with patrons.) * * * @Brandt_Smith1 thanks for the shoutout! --- _[View the full topic](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/the-wisdom-of-no-escape/16881)._