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by easton 1889 days ago
I think it’s mostly Power Query (the thing in excel that pops up when you click “Get and Transform Data” is what I’m talking about) requires .NET 4 at the moment, which means that they’d need to get it on .NET Core to get it on the Mac, and then would still have no way to get it on the web and on mobile. It’s a serious pain point for cross platform compatibility in Excel at the moment, but I concur with you that we need to keep it or something similar around (especially since Microsoft keeps dragging their feet on adding first class support for a scripting language that isn’t VBA).