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I have two thoughts.

1. This is a huge improvement over VBA.

2. This is going to make creating unmaintainable mission critical Excel macro based monstrosities even easier.

So a small software improvement may be releasing new terrors into the IT world.

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Some of those monstrous spreadsheets are extremely valuable, but wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Excel.

Reminds me of gunpowder - very powerful, very dangerous and very useful.

Yeah, Excel is crazy flexible so it's no wonder that where ever there isn't a designated application for something, people fall back to Excel. I think it's a good platform to introduce dev tools in, all those small ad-hoc use cases can be served much better with some serious dev tools at hand.

Whoops... Well, at least it's also going to make creating maintainable mission critical Excel based monstrosities easier:)

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