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
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.
That's just machine learning which is very resource consuming. It has no relation to your purported case of phones redirecting all python tasks to servers.
The video I watched on the subject said the cloud part was to simplify and standardize the code environment. I’m sure they could have done something like a PyEnv and/or embedded copy of Python, but that’d be extra computer and storage overhead.
It’d be nice to have the option though.
I hear LibreOffice has had this functionality for a while though.
I would agree with you, if I’d never met a corporate executive. Anecdotal, but all the CEO’s I’ve ever met have got to grasp at any power that anyone will give them and then exploit it for profit as much as possible. If it ran locally, then they couldn’t charge a subscription fee. They even do the drug dealer trick of letting you have the first one free (there’s a preview period) and then taking it away unless you pay (the sub fee).
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.
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.
Yup, most likely. I’m saying the total calculation w/ Excel formulas is often greater than that round trip + computation time w/ Python. Excel formulas are pretty slow.
Think huge formulas. I’ve seen formulas take minutes in Excel, but seconds when implemented better in a script. If you haven’t worked with massive formulas, you’re not the target market here.
Another application is accessing external APIs that don’t have internal support. If you’re accessing an external API, you’re already paying a network overhead cost, so adding another isn’t going to matter much.
On the one hand, yes. On the other, imagine handing excel files with embeded python viruses to every out of touch exec with admin powers on their laptop. LOL
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