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Having Excel save and load readable and editable source file would be the best improvement for me... Version control, easy editing with vim etc while interopera

Having Excel save and load readable and editable source file would be the best improvement for me... Version control, easy editing with vim etc while interoperable for people who like Excel. No programming language research needed for that; just normal programming best practices.

imhoguy 8y ago
XLSX files are just zipped XML files: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML Hint: as far as I remember compression ratio is 0 (stored) - best to keep such on re-save for compatibility.
- tluyben2 8y ago
  Not really readable or editable though.
  - pjmlp 8y ago
    They are with the help of tooling. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/open-xml/open-xml-sdk https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/open-xml/open-xml-sd...