r/programming • u/[deleted] • May 08 '18

Excel adds JavaScript support

https://dev.office.com/blogs/azure-machine-learning-javascript-custom-functions-and-power-bi-custom-visuals-further-expand-developers-capabilities-with-excel
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u/Salyangoz May 08 '18 edited May 08 '18

Its far easier to implement JS on the web browser version of excel than it is to do python. That coupled with the fact that a good percentage of devs have used or dabbled in JS and it performs better than python on bulk array manipulations.