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Re:DataNitro (YC S12) Looks to Increase Power of Excel With ... by waterside81 on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @02:52PM (#6439927)
If anybody from DataNitro is lurking, I have a question: what's the advantage of using DataNitro over Win32com + Python?
Re:DataNitro (YC S12) Looks to Increase Power of Excel With ... by karamazov on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @03:14PM (#6440066)
one of the founders here. mainly, it's a lot easier to use. we've made our syntax as basic as possible, and we handle all the COM magic on the backend. this means you can get your code working faster, and it'll automatically include a lot of behind-the-scenes optimizations to make it run better.

here's one example of an optimization: if you're using a basic Win32com script, it'll freeze Excel while it's executing. DataNitro doesn't do this, so you can turn a spreadsheet into an interactive dashboard just by using a while loop. it'd take a lot of time to get that working properly using Win32com.