Technology

Firstly, there's no technological reason for this. It's all rent-seeking bullshit. But the thing is, there's no version of Office that this point that works without a subscription, which also assumes you're probably always online, so it's honestly moot anyway.

It's so tiresome. Big tech really doesn't want people to run, own, or operate their own systems independently.

Why send it to the cloud when Excel is running on a perfectly capable hunk of silicon? That's doesn't make a lick of sense to me

And just wait till some random accountant with basic knowledge of python builds out the next "great" critical system that uses this as its underlying technology. IT departments everywhere rejoice!

So Python, Excel, Cloud, Decision-Making... Who has bingo?

On lemmy.world somebody pointed out that xlwings, a FOSS python-in-excel thingamajig, already exists

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I love how "PY" appears as "Ad" when put upside down on the right part of the image. Probably unintentional but it makes it look like a subliminal message

I would use embedded Lua. Cloud python sounds like a headache and won't pass an internal security review.