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Although I don't like JS, I use that too, but it's pretty half-baked tooling compared to what Excel has. I would rather like to see just being able to point out some Google Cloud Functions and use those as spreadsheet commands. That would be powerful. Now you can but you have to do plumbing and you cannot reuse libs over sheets unless you make them public (last I checked, I could be wrong on this one but I read posts from as far back as 2011 where 'they are working on it'); you have to copy/paste. Yuck.

I wish someone (MS, ...) would do something, but I work on Linux so no Excel for me. And I do like very large datasets to be in the cloud anyway and not killing my laptop.

There should be more competitors in the space. I know there are a few, but they are not really competitors, just more niche / boutique products that attack a specific case, so you need to go back to Sheets or Excel anyway.




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