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Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloud (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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 off~~the~~line

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Python bit. The cloud was copied from Google's suite.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I was just going to ask how long before Libreoffice has local python scripting. Of course it already has it and MS is copying them in a shittier way, silly me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

GSheets lets you run python code? I thought they were all js-based

edit: I misread, you're saying LibreOffice has Python support, nvm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They ~~don't~~ let you write custom JS scripts, ~~at least not without hacks AFAIK~~. We are talking about scripting languages for macros like Office’s infamous VBA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think what they let you do is write mini add-ons using the API and support JS in an in-browser editor. Then you have to enable the add-ons. I guess equivalently you can do the same things with an IDE and any language, but it felt like they "officially" supported JS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So who is hosting libteoffice’s python cloud?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No one. It's local. As it should be.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Right. So like not what people are saying in the posts above. Yet I still get downvoted.

Anyway, thanks for confirming this is not cloud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

libreoffice is local, MS office is not doing local.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Plus that was also perfectly explained already above. Just check the thread under ChaoticNeutralCzech...