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> “I’m excited that this excellent, tight integration of Python and Excel is now seeing the light of day,” says Guido van Rossum, Python’s creator and now a Mic
by sneak 3y ago
> “I’m excited that this excellent, tight integration of Python and Excel is now seeing the light of day,” says Guido van Rossum, Python’s creator and now a Microsoft distinguished engineer.
It's depressing seeing someone who has done so much work for the free software community now working to enrich the spyware-laden proprietary product offerings of a megacorp.
Nothing about this is "good for Python" or hackers - it's just good for Microsoft to sell more Excel (and Microsoft accounts). That makes the world worse.
I thought the B stood for benevolent.
- Bostonian 3y agoEven installing Python seems to a hurdle for many employees. They need to get approval from IT, and it seems not to get done. They use Excel, and if they can use Python within Excel without installing anything extra, it will increase the user base of Python. After getting a taste of Python they may install Python locally and use it outside Excel. So I think this will be "good for Python". Certainly integration of VBA into Excel has been good for VBA.
- diarrhea 3y agoHere I was, hoping he worked on performance, typing, dependency management or other hard, meaningful issues in the Python ecosystem.