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Thanks for the reply.

> As to your question, I interpret it as: why are lambdas coming inside spreadsheets instead of spreadsheets becoming incorporated into programming languages, right?

Let me extend this. The power of the spreadsheet programming model (and work environment) is indisputable. In recent years, we've seen many interesting attempts to bring that power directly into programming tools (examples in the Clojure space: witheve, javelin, hyperfiddle; I even think witheve's first iteration was in fact a programmable spreadsheet, but I can't find it anymore). Conceptually these tools have the potential to converge to the same sweet spot, being a merge of 2 similar tenets. But the programming-driven side is converging far more slowly.

I'm interested in this because I think most programming environments these days are still too serial, and there's a lot to gain from moving into a more 2D -- spreadsheet like -- programming environment. It seems obvious, but still far away. It looks like spreadsheets will reach the sweet spot faster. But I like navigating code in Emacs more than I do jumping around cells and hitting F2 to edit.