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So, when are you developers going to build an End-User Development platform with decent engineering practices, to replace Excel for business users?
by TuringTest 8y ago
So, when are you developers going to build an End-User Development platform with decent engineering practices, to replace Excel for business users?
- cm2187 8y agoAgree. The choice isn't between spaghetti VBA and clean code, it is between spaghetti VBA and business users doing more copy-paste and manual work. It's not economical to have a professional development team looking at every single task that needs to be automated in a business.
- strictnein 8y agoMight as well ask the people running a mom and pop store in Podunk when they're going to unseat Amazon.
- sevensor 8y ago> replace Excel for business users Not likely. Given the depth and breadth of its penetration, all the man-millenia that have been spent encoding business rules in Excel, I suspect that in the end Excel will outlive Windows itself, just as COBOL has outlived the mainframe era. I'd love to see a principled approach to extending Excel, and maybe MS have already done it. There are a lot of ways to extend Excel, and given the MS practice of keeping backwards compatibility alive for decades, none of them is going away any time soon. Could be one of them is actually good. I just today learned about Power Query M, which looks promising.
- zimablue 8y agoIt's called Jupyter
- TuringTest 8y agoJupyter has too much syntax for end users, and its execution model (having to run cells in order to prepare the state for executing other dependent cells) is not intuitive. Also, installing it is not exactly user friendly. Heck, you have to open a terminal to launch it!
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- ako 8y agoThat's the goal of all low-code and no-code tools. Just take a look at air-table, Mendix or out systems, for example. Gartner and forester have many more listed in their quadrants.