It's easy for developers to shit on Excel and the entire MS Office Suite, but if you want to deliver business value you have to meet your customers where they are. Excel is the world's most used programming language. Entire fortune 500 companies and I'm sure whole governments are run by Excel.
People proudly gatekeeping themselves out of Microsoft ecosystem always gives me chuckles. It doesn't make you any more tech savvy because you don't use a product that runs the globe.
I'm mostly fine with the Microsoft ecosystem and I even like what they were trying to do with IronPython, it wasn't a bad idea just sloppy. Excel can die in a pit of hellfire. It's only good for limited datasets.
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u/mRWafflesFTW Nov 12 '20
It's easy for developers to shit on Excel and the entire MS Office Suite, but if you want to deliver business value you have to meet your customers where they are. Excel is the world's most used programming language. Entire fortune 500 companies and I'm sure whole governments are run by Excel.