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Sure, but it's not as big as an ecosystem. Knowing JavaScript at this point is way more valuable than learning VBA. I'm not saying VBA is bad, I think visual basic is great, I have fond memories of it, but reality is JavaScript is going to be what companies are going to want their employees to know.

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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.

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.

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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