[eggy]

I work at an engineering firm (not software), and for performing and presenting manual calculations it it great. You wouldn't write a Python or Julia script or use a Jupyter notebook for any of it. Because I like to code, I've written small programs for more involved calculations in J, C, F#, and my favorite Frink. Frink is great for engineering because it handles different units and systems throughout a calculation. Mathcad is also good for laying out manual calculations. Excel is the engineer's scratchpad. There are just certain things that are just easier to do in Excel, and not everything turns into a problem that needs a programming language. But there are ways of working with Excel from most programming languages aside from VBA.