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by Terretta 1387 days ago
> We spent a considerable amount of time two years ago developing Excel extensions for our spreadsheet-version-control product. It was... not ideal from a development perspective.

So here’s the thing. You develop once, people use many.

So the point of dev is to do the not ideal things so the many users don’t have to. Suck it up so users have it easy. Software that doesn’t make users change, that doesn’t get in the way of a career of learning to bend Excel to their will, they’ll throw money at you for that.

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I could have been more clear with my language -- "not ideal" doesn't mean that it was unpleasant (actually not awful hot-reload loop).

It was more-so that it's technical infeasible, given with Excel exposes to you as an extension developer. Aka, the gates the add to their ecosystem make it pretty much impossible, which is another one of the reasons we're open source!

Will clarify my language around this going forward!