I mentioned python mostly due to limited imagination and because its data science ecosystem is a natural fit for working with spreadsheets. But the comment is i

I mentioned python mostly due to limited imagination and because its data science ecosystem is a natural fit for working with spreadsheets. But the comment is indeed more about to think how scripting could be integrated into libreoffice more effectively both for more technical users that would write and share specific libraries and non-technical users that can use these libraries easily in "visual" point-and-click mode. People routinely load and work with spreadsheets in IDE's, or the command line etc. For example Spyder/RStudio/PyCharm etc have some rudimentary means of displaying dataframes. What would be more empowering for many more users is for the spreadsheet application to offer a IDE/REPL type environment. Once the rails for this "extension" have been laid out all sorts of alternative semantics for working with data would be possible.