Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the flying billionaires heads up in the clouds who don’t give a fuck for life offtheline

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    2 年前

    I can understand the cloud part. they wanted it work on the web and phones. They do know many businesses don’t want cloud, so I see a good chance they’ll ship it with embedded Python eventually.

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      2 年前

      Phones can also run Python and web is already a pretty separate version, I don’t see why they can’t only make the web version cloud.

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        2 年前

        At least iPhone apps usually redirect Python tasks to their servers. That’s one reason there are projects like Tensorflow Light.

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      2 年前

      Python is fast enough, and generally quite a bit faster than complex spreadsheet formulas. I’ve seen formulas that can take minutes that Python could do in seconds. A web request isn’t going to matter that much.

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        2 年前

        Web requests are <em>very</em> slow compared to CPU computations, not to mention that time has to be doubled since it’s a two-way route.

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          Sure, but it happens once. So as long as Python saves you more than the half second or so round trip, it’ll be preferable.

          I’d prefer it to be embedded, but I can absolutely see it being useful even if it’s cloud-only.

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            2 年前

            Wouldn’t it need to send to the cloud and back every time you change one of the cells the script is depending on?

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    Because it was so much easier to send data to the cloud than embed a Python interpreter. 🤦

    I wouldn’t be surprised if there already is one in the monstrosity that is Excel

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        Yep. Everyone in the thread asking this question seems clueless to me. Macros are already a threat. I can’t imagine what a shitshow full on python would be.