More senior than Windows itself, and still runs the world
  • humblebunEnglish
    352·
    2 months ago

    Long live the one and only solution that is a big data platform, a database, and, of course, an AI tool

  • jubilationtcornponeEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    And still the spreadsheet gold standard. Microsoft gets plenty of shit wrong but Excel is one thing they got right.

    • jubilationtcornponeEnglish
      91·
      2 months ago

      I hear a lot of devs that don’t seem to get this.

      “WhY wOuLd YoU uSe ExCeL? I pReFeR tO cOdE mY oWn SoLuTiOn.”

      No, Why would I spend a week coding something that I can create a pivot table and some charts for in an hour? Especially when if I code it myself, that means I now own and have to support my lovely new utility. Time is money and I’ve got way more important things to do than build custom reporting suites that no one except me is ever going to use.

      • oldfart@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I also prefer a spreadsheet, but for a proficient coder it’s not a week long job, unless they build it on bare metal. You can do a lot in an hour with a visualization library.

  • rauls4@lemm.eeEnglish
    66·
    2 months ago

    40 years after ripping off VisiCalc which is 45 years old. And Aldus Persuation, and WordStar, and CPM, and Macintosh OS, and Netscape, and the list goes on.

    • jubilationtcornponeEnglish
      25·
      2 months ago

      Lol Google sheets has nowhere near the capabilities of Excel. They’re not even in the same class.

      • myplacedk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Number of features that is has? Sure.

        Number of features that I need? Google Sheets wins.

        As I use Excel at work, I’d be happy if you prove me wrong here. Just yesterday I needed to do a simple search/replace with regular expressions. My solution was to copy the data to Google Sheets.