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Now that Microsoft embraced Python, what are the odds it will go all the way to extend and extinguish it (or at least CPython as reference implementation)? Ther
by Qem 3y ago
Now that Microsoft embraced Python, what are the odds it will go all the way to extend and extinguish it (or at least CPython as reference implementation)? There are much more excel users than programmers. If excel runs Python, it has the potential to become the "de facto" standard interpreter, used by most people worldwide, displacing CPython.
- kortex 3y agoBetween nil and zero. Just because excel is "bigger" by various metrics, does not give MS any more ability to quash Python. The software world is way larger than it was in the heyday of EEE. Excel still has a fraction of the power Python does, it's not becoming "de facto" anything that it isn't already de facto for (which is highly interactive data wrangling and making reports by folks who cant/won't use a python env for that task).