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 offtheline
Are they not gonna give a bullshit reason for this? Just straight up give us your data and it’s secure on our Azure instances?
Seems a bit odd to not have the option to run python locally on my own machine
It would be very strange if you couldn’t just export your data to csv and then run a python script in a shell on it.
Python is slow enough as is, who the fuck thought adding a web request to that was a good idea‽
Python is fast enough, and generally quite a bit faster than complex spreadsheet formulas. I’ve seen formulas that can take minutes that Python could do in seconds. A web request isn’t going to matter that much.
I can understand the cloud part. they wanted it work on the web and phones. They do know many businesses don’t want cloud, so I see a good chance they’ll ship it with embedded Python eventually.
Phones can also run Python and web is already a pretty separate version, I don’t see why they can’t only make the web version cloud.
At least iPhone apps usually redirect Python tasks to their servers. That’s one reason there are projects like Tensorflow Light.
For instance? All the python apps I’ve downloaded so far seem to function offline.
You can look up Tensorflow Light.
That’s just machine learning which is very resource consuming. It has no relation to your purported case of phones redirecting all python tasks to servers.
Okay, I dug more to find out I’m wrong.
But isn’t ML technology a thing Excel offers with its new Python interface?
Because it was so much easier to send data to the cloud than embed a Python interpreter. 🤦
I wouldn’t be surprised if there already is one in the monstrosity that is Excel
My guess is that they are seeing this as less likely to become a security hole.
Yep. Everyone in the thread asking this question seems clueless to me. Macros are already a threat. I can’t imagine what a shitshow full on python would be.
Someone on lemmy.world pointed out the FOSS xlwings also exists.
