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Re:Excel Functions in F# Language by inglor on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:44PM (#34793995)
Re:Excel Functions in F# Language by ripley12 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @08:38PM (#34798942)
I mean... sorta. It's not easy to write a Office add-in just using the C API, and when I tried a year or two ago the only example code I could find was like 20 years old and all documentation was heavily pushing people toward the newer JS-based add-ins.

I quit that job because the extensibility story for Excel was so painful (but they had good business reasons for being in the space), sigh.

Re:Excel Functions in F# Language by airstrike on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:40PM (#34799340)
Writing an XLL add-in is a terrible pain I wish on no one at all. The documentation is all over the place, terribly outdated and generally an aggravating process to try to learn it from scratch