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ambyra on July 15, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: We need visual programming. No, not like that

I always thought excel could do this, and everyone already knows excel. Toss out the vba, replace with python, every cell is a function, have a regular view, a relationship view that shows which cells connect to the current selected cell, have a run, stop pause, step/break button. Everyone would use this.

thedevilslawyer on July 15, 2024 [–]

This is possible today with google sheets and javascript. The appscript integration is kind of amazing and allows for these flows effectively.

ambyra on July 15, 2024 | [–]

I had no idea. This sounds amazing. Do you know of any companies using this?

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