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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by DylanDmitri on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:26PM (#25072134)
I'm hoping for a Jupyter/Excel hybrid, but that's mostly wishful thinking.
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by likelybear on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:13PM (#25072790)
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.
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by antupis on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:13PM (#25073645)
That looks so good that I am thinking about learning Julia.
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by O_H_E on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:22PM (#25073762)
Well then I would like to through this your way. https://mitmath.github.io/18S191/Fall20/
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by antupis on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:17AM (#25079479)
Thx I will check that.
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by DylanDmitri on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:55PM (#25073401)
Ooh that's really good, thank you for sharing!
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by st1x7 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:37PM (#25072291)
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.
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by gota on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:59PM (#25072603)
If you mean to retire VB in favor of Python for writing macros, I'm all for it. Not much Jupyter though
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by askvictor on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:17PM (#25075182)
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 (#25072836)
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by Aperocky on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:41PM (#25072353)
Oh no.