What is Rubberduck?

PLEASE NOTE

The information contained on this page and in this blog pertains to the Rubberduck open-source project, which is now archived as a historical property of Rubberduck VBA Software Solutions, owned and operated by the owner and primary author and architect of Rubberduck.
Please see What’s Next? for more information, and lastly rubberduckvba.ca becomes the new, corporate home of this project, its legacy,
…and its future.

Historical Context

Rubberduck is first and foremost an open-source initiative, an ongoing long-haul project that gets people together and talk about how we can make the VBE a better place to write better code in.

Rubberduck isn’t a lightweight add-in: its scope is to massively enhance the Visual Basic Editor, and in order to do that it hooks in places no add-in has gone before.

We’re not a software company. We’re students, or we have jobs, or both. We have families and friends, some of us have kids. We make the time for Rubberduck, because we love this project and we love helping people write better code.

This blog contains articles about feature announcements, information about upcoming releases, but also detailed tutorials on various VBA topics – often geared towards promoting clean, testable, object-oriented code.

Rubberduck finds its roots in Code Review Stack Exchange after all.

Pre-launch Rubberduck Core

Rubberduck will always keep its core principles and remain free and open source under GPLv3, and this includes future iterations. However as the historical “we’re not a software company” narrative shifts, the passion remains and the company that will now be backing Rubberduck is fully committed to building the best possible ecosystem for VBA. This blog will become a historical archive and public knowledge base.

Follow the rubberduck-vba organization on GitHub to stay in the loop. The official corporate communication channel is currently a bit hidden in the .github repository discussions.

Rubberduck ❤️ Ko-fi

If you have ever supported Rubberduck through Ko-fi (anywhere from $0.00 & up) while the swag shop was opened and wish to claim the Flagship subscription tier you’re therefore entitled to, please take a moment (2 minutes) to let me know you consent to have your contact information shared between the “personal hat” that owns the shop data and the “corporate hat” that will be owning the subscription data:

👉 Microsoft Forms: Rubberduck ❤️ Ko-fi

An email will be sent to all Ko-fi contacts linking to this form, but it’s possible that email ends up in your spam folder because it will have to be sent from the rubberduckvba@gmail non-corporate account, CC privacy@rubberduckvba.ca.

Note that you can still technically use this form to claim a Flagship free subscription (to be activated at the public launch of the Rubberduck Core platform) with a valid email, regardless of whether you supported Rubberduck through Ko-fi or not – there is no requirement of prior support (monetary or otherwise) for this or any other subscription tier.

Rubberduck and Me

If you want to support the project indirectly, you can also take a moment to answer a quick market research questionnaire that intends to probe how engaged the Rubberduck community is, and since when.

👉 Microsoft Forms: Rubberduck and Me

This questionnaire should take under 10 minutes to complete.