Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
by DylanDmitri on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:26PM
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I'm hoping for a Jupyter/Excel hybrid, but that's mostly wishful thinking.
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
by likelybear on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:13PM
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That's arguably the goal of [Pluto.jl](https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl). It's a (Julia-specific) reactive notebook that automatically updates all affected cells and has no hidden state.
That looks so good that I am thinking about learning Julia.
Well then I would like to through this your way. https://mitmath.github.io/18S191/Fall20/
Thx I will check that.
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
by DylanDmitri on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:55PM
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Ooh that's really good, thank you for sharing!
Please no. Excel is great when it stays within its lane and use case and doesn't try to be everything. Jupyter is okay-ish is some places but in general is way overused. Mixing them together would be a move in the wrong direction and a bit of a mess.
If you mean to retire VB in favor of Python for writing macros, I'm all for it. Not much Jupyter though
There's been a few projects in this space (PySpread is the first that jumps to mind), but also, not too long ago (last year maybe?), MS was investigating making Python a first-class inhabitant of Excel, so might already be in the pipeline.
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
by causalmodels on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:17PM
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It's already been done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od-1cEac9U4&feature=emb_titl...