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by bubblebobble 1031 days ago
This is so weird. I built a working "python within excel" a few years back. (it also did sql and matlab&r remotely)

Abandoned now: https://alphawolfxl.com/

I abandoned this when some people I asked to beta test it said "their company wouldn't pay for it" and gave me the impression I'd wasted my time....

....Not sure how to feel about this.....

2 comments

Don’t feel too bad because if you would have created a product from it, today this product would be deprecated..
I don't think that's necessarily true. They built VSTO for C#, but everybody was using ExcelDNA instead, an Open Source solution that was much better!
By chance I built quite an interesting addin for excel using VSTO. It was great, nothing to complain about. In the corporate world Microsoft tech is widely common.
You were just ahead of your time!