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A lot of people who use excel heavily are not really “programmers” and don’t have strong fundamentals or an appetite to manage their own software stack. This al
by Our_Benefactors 3y ago
A lot of people who use excel heavily are not really “programmers” and don’t have strong fundamentals or an appetite to manage their own software stack. This also simplifies development on MS end by only needing to validate a single python version.
- abenga 3y agoThen they should embed the supported version of python in Excel and manage it automatically for them. This can be validated with Excel before release.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoThis seems like the only solution. Do not copy all of Python’s warts, but offer a curated experience. Microsoft Experience (TM) with fixed APIs, no package management or dealing with ecosystem churn.
- Spivak 3y agoIt will never work because Python is the ecosystem. Having Python without the ability to tap the huge catalogue of existing software makes the integration worthless. The first thing someone will want to do is use Pandas on a live spreadsheet.
- kortex 3y agoIf you read TFA, you'd see that the python env comes with a bunch of the favorites (pandas, matplotlib) baked in.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoThe use case is someone in Excel who does not want to write VBA. You do not need to offer the entire ecosystem, just a slightly better language to handle more sophisticated modeling needs.