Microsoft Considers Adding Python As an Official Scripting Language in Excel (bleepingcomputer.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft is considering adding Python as one of the official Excel scripting languages, according to a topic on Excel's feedback hub opened last month. Since it was opened, the topic has become the most voted feature request, double the votes of the second-ranked proposition. "Let us do scripting with Python! Yay! Not only as an alternative to VBA, but also as an alternative to field functions (=SUM(A1:A2))," the feature request reads, as opened by one of Microsoft's users.

The OS maker responded yesterday by putting up a survey to gather more information and how users would like to use Python inside Excel. If approved, Excel users would be able to use Python scripts to interact with Excel documents, their data, and some of Excel's core functions, similar to how Excel currently supports VBA scripts. Python is one of the most versatile programming languages available today. It is also insanely popular with developers. It ranks second on the PYPL programming languages ranking, third in the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings, and fourth in the TIOBE index.

Comments

no worries, right?

[Anonymous Coward]

python has no bugs at all, so there is no need to worry

Good riddance to VBA

[mykepredko]

I heartily agreed with Edsger Dijkstra when he said "the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery."

The only reason why I've kept my VBA skills up is Excel - I find that I have to do a macro or two every three to six months and the process of getting my head around BASIC never seems to be simple and makes going back to C/C++/Python a chore.

Hopefully WebAssembly will help me get rid of that other programming abomination that I have to deal with - Javascript.