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Code those same kind of decisions in JavaScript or PHP and it’s clear that you’re doing programming. Excel is often referred to as the original low-code tool.

Using data from Excel Web with JavaScript; explanations from the new Excel Mashup site The desktop Office apps have been connecting to Office servers for years now, from the original Project ...

To provide Python in Excel locally, Anaconda used Microsoft’s existing Excel plugin capabilities combined with their own technologies. They used PyScript, a Python-on-WebAssembly (WASM) technology, to ...

Also, if you try to execute a JavaScript function in an Excel spreadsheet connected to an external server, permission to connect is requested, so it seems to prevent the execution of illegal code.

However, security experts have raised concerns around Javascript's potential to be abused by malicious actors to run arbitrary code on users' computers. "I can think of a few more examples that ...

The questions plaguing users of Microsoft Excel—JavaScript support, slow Mac development cycles, the lack of Easter eggs—all apparently come down to one thing: prioritizing developer resources ...