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Maybe you’re talking to the wrong people? Management consultants spontaneously express their love for excel without being prompted. I’ve even seen it at partie
by designerarvid 7mo ago
Maybe you’re talking to the wrong people?
Management consultants spontaneously express their love for excel without being prompted. I’ve even seen it at parties.
- whatever1 7mo agoThey are also very good at it. Coders suck at using excel. Honorable mention for the finance folks who know both excel and vba because they deal with both sides.
- somat 7mo agoWe suck at excel because we recognize that it has a bad data model and avoid it. So when we want to calculate something we pick something with better structure. something more pleasant to use than the spreadsheets "it's a big bag of cells" approach. Really, spreadsheets are fine, they probably hit that sweet spot for easy to get something together and deep enough to express complex needs. But I have to admit, now that I have better tools I don't enjoy doing work in them anymore.
- andyferris 7mo agoI feel it's the extreme of "static vs dynamic languages". In Excel, even variables (cells) are dynamic, not fixed names in a lexical scope. The reactive programming aspect is genuinely good; I wish my business logic could be expressed declaritively and the system just reacted automatically. I also find it fascinating to consider the looks-like-a-spreadsheet-but-statically-typed-and-scoped world (airtable is a step in this direction, for example).
- leoc 7mo agoThere is even a successful competitive scene: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/06/experience-i-am-the-excel-world-champion https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/06/experie... https://excel-esports.com/ https://excel-esports.com/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6xw9w976jo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6xw9w976jo