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I don't think it's as bad as people make it, and certainly we can't blame non-technical users if they like it, for many tasks it's the only tool that's simultaneously usable by normal people and powerful enough.

It suffers from trying to do too many things at once, though. Excel 3 is enough for those use cases without being a complete nightmare for everyone else. Electronic spreadsheets as a concepts are genius, it's the implementation I hate.

[fishmicrowaver]

Too many at once? Apparently, you can insert Python code into Excel now, which then gets executed into whatever Azure's equivalent of lambda is. I was recently introduced to someone at work who vibe coded an entire Python application in it and burned through their teams worth of cloud credits.

[thewebguyd]

When Python in Excel was announced I was initially pretty excited until I found out that it executes in Azure.

WHY wouldn't Microsoft just run it in the local interpreter on the machine?

[Qem]

> WHY wouldn't Microsoft just run it in the local interpreter on the machine?

Probably to tighten vendor lock-in.