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I totally agree with this. I've always found debugging Excel spreadsheets to be a real challenge. I work in accountancy and while its possible to audit the out
by JetSetIlly 2y ago
I totally agree with this. I've always found debugging Excel spreadsheets to be a real challenge.
I work in accountancy and while its possible to audit the output of the spreadsheet, (as I'm sure it's possible to audit the output in other domains) as an erstwhile Software Engineer I can't help but think it would be better if I could better verify the integrity of the spreadsheet itself. It's far too easy to introduce unnoticed errors.
Other people have different views on this but I love the idea of spreadsheets but I don't like any spreadsheet software. I think there's massive room for improvement. But if you were to ask me how to improve it specifically, I couldn't really pinpoint anything.
I had a go at doing something in this space to scratch a very specific itch but of course, it doesn't address any of my complaints here. Rather, it tried to tackle another of my complaints - the lack of good support for different number bases https://github.com/JetSetIlly/Ivycel/ https://github.com/JetSetIlly/Ivycel/